Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Siluridæ, or having their characters; being or resembling a cattish or sheat-fish; siluridan.
- noun A silure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Siluroidei, or Nematognathi, an order of fishes including numerous species, among which are the American catfishes and numerous allied fresh-water species of the Old World, as the sheatfish (
Silurus glanis ) of Europe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
silurid .
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Examples
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Marine and other siluroid fishes, a group represented on the continent of Europe, but doubtfully, if at all, in this country, constitute one twentieth of the Ceylon fishes.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Marine and other siluroid fishes, a group represented on the continent of Europe, but doubtfully, if at all, in this country, constitute one twentieth of the Ceylon fishes.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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