Meaning & use
Silure
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An archaic or literary term for a large catfish, especially the European wels catfish.
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The old fisherman spoke of a silure said to lurk in the deepest pool of the river.
Medieval bestiaries described the silure as a monstrous fish of murky waters.
A note on using this word
Derived from Latin 'silurus,' itself from Greek; the word survives mainly in older natural-history writing and heraldic descriptions.
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catfishwels
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