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Definition of Characins
1. characin [n] - See also: characin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Characins
Literary usage of Characins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years of Darwinism: Modern Aspects of Evolution; Centennial Addresses by Granville Stanley Hall, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Charles Benedict Davenport, William Ernest Castle, Daniel Trembly Macdougal, Edmund Beecher Wilson, David Starr Jordan, John Merle Coulter, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (1909)
"I could paraphrase Osborn's words for the characins many times. ' The characins
have taken on the habits of many fishes and have paralleled them while they ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"The author bases his treatment of it upon observations of the freshwater fishes
known as characins, and comes to the following conclusions, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"Henry Wr. Fowler has recently done for the characins.2 Dr. Fowler has redescribed
many of Cope's species and has supplied illustrations of those not figured ..."
4. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"As regards a connection of tropical Africa with tropical South America, Eigenmann
is much more positive, basing it mainly upon the characins and cichlids, ..."
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