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Definition of Arapaima
1. n. A large fresh-water food fish of South America.
Definition of Arapaima
1. Noun. A large carnivorous predatory South American tropical freshwater fish, ''Arapaima gigas''. It is the largest scaled freshwater fish in the world. It is a primitive fish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arapaima
1. a large food fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Arapaima
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Arapaima
Literary usage of Arapaima
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Histological Series Contained by John Quekett (1855)
"... probably the arapaima gigas of South America ; it consists of a series of
lamina.', some of which are much undulated ..."
2. Guide to the Gallery of Fishes in the Department of Zoology of the British by William George Ridewood (1908)
"The arapaima (arapaima gigas, fig. 50, 1033 and 1034, Table-case 51, and skeleton,
1035, ... The arapaima is highly esteemed as an article of food; ..."
3. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"arapaima BRAZILIAN arapaima. (One-twentieth natural size.) The true arapaima (arapaima
gigas) of the larger rivers of Brazil and the Guianas, ..."
4. The Natural History of the Fishes of Guiana by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, William Jardine, Andrew Crichton (1841)
"The following spirited account of hunting the arapaima is given by our author:—"
Partly to serve us for economical purposes, but more to satisfy our ..."
5. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"The arapaima (arapaima gigas, fig. 50, 1033 and 1034, Table-case 51, and skeleton,
1035, ... The arapaima is highly esteemed as an article of food; ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"... and scarcely made the tops of the arrows their appearance, when others flew
from their strings and pierced the arapaima. Down he went again; ..."
7. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"other fishes, but is richly beset with teeth in the arapaima gigas. It principally
constitutes the floor of the orbit, its breadth depending much upon the ..."
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