Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of small minnows, known as bleaks, found in the waters of Europe. A. alburnus is the common bleak.
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- adjective
bleak (fish, attributive)
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Less obvious though are auburn (through mediaeval Latin alburnus), daub (from dealbare, to whitewash), and albatross (where albus is implicated as modifying English's absorption of Spanish alcatraz).
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