silure
See also: Silure
English
Etymology
Latin silurus (“a sort of river fish”), from Ancient Greek σίλουρος (sílouros, “a very large sort of river fish”).
Noun
silure (plural silures)
- A fish of the genus Silurus, such as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for silure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Luries, Suriel
French
Etymology
Latin silūrus, in turn from Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.lyʁ/
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Noun
silure m (plural silures)
- wels catfish (Silurus glanis)
- Synonym: silure glane
Further reading
- “silure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Noun
silūre
- vocative singular of silūrus