Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plectognathous fishes, to which different limits have been assigned.
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He isnt "thick" but has hydro-cephalus, epilepsy and a form of palsy.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Tympanocryptis cephalus – blotch-tailed earless dragon.
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Tympanocryptis cephalus – blotch-tailed earless dragon.
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Tympanocryptis cephalus by Paul Blake — blotch-tailed earless dragon.
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Fasíkh (fish) and the Búrí (mugil cephalus) a salt-water fish caught in the Nile and considered fair eating.
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The principal fish dependent on this teeming life are eel Anguilla anguilla, mullets Mugil cephalus and M. ramada, sole Solea solea, sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax, barbel Barbus barbus, shad Alosa fallax and anchovy Engraulis encrasicholus.
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Whilst rain is wholesome for most fishes, it is, on the contrary, unwholesome for the mullet, the cephalus, and the so-called marinus, for rain superinduces blindness in most of these fishes, and all the more rapidly if the rainfall be superabundant.
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The cephalus and the mullet in general are the only fish that eat no flesh; this may be inferred from the facts that when caught they are never found with flesh in their intestines, and that the bait used to catch them is not flesh but barley-cake.
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