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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of large tailed amphibians, typical of the family Menopomidæ so called from the persistence of the gill-slits or branchial apertures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The hellbender.
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Another of the same order -- a formidable and savage creature -- is the menopoma, inhabiting the Ohio, Alleghany, and other rivers of the south, frequently, from its propensities, called the young alligator.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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