Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ichthyology, a salmonoid fish, the Mackenzie river salmon, Stenodus mackenzii, resembling the whitefishes, Coregonus, but with a deeply cleft mouth, much-projecting lower jaw, broad lanceolate supramaxillaries, and teeth in bands on the vomer, palatines, and tongue. It inhabits the Mackenzie river and its tributaries in northwestern Canada, and reaches a large size. It was an unknown fish to the Canadian voyageurs who first saw it, and the name perpetuates the impression first conveyed.
Wiktionary
- n. A large salmonid fish, scientific name Stenodus leucichthys, with a large mouth with a protruding lower jaw and a high and pointed dorsal fin
Examples
“if you like cache and lemming, try to check out code inconnu, which is another of Haneke's and is absolutely fantastic.”
“Un homme qui fut de la fortune et du renom inconnu :”
“Other important foods are inconnu, whitefish, cisco, and blueberries.”
“Vers l'instant, Lecture de 'Portrait d'un inconnu' de Nathalie Sarraute.”
“Jerzy Kolendo makes the case for skepticism in Uno spartaco sconosciuto nella Pompei osca: Le pitture della casa di Amando, Index 9 1980: 3340 and Spartacus sur une peinture osque de Pompei: Chef de la grande insurrection servile ou un gladiateur inconnu originaire de la Thrace?”
“The inconnu (circumpolar species) spawns in Buffalo Lake, and the Peace-Athabasca delta is an important spawning area for goldeye and walleye.”
“India via Persia; and held that they had been reduced to their present shape by an Auteur Arabe inconnu.”
“Hier apres-midi je recois un SMS dont l'expediteur se revele etre inconnu au bataillon!”
“Elle connait des gens via forum de passionnés qui valent mille fois plus le coup que moi mais non elle le revend a un inconnu.”
“Margaret Gilman, "Balzac and Diderot: Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu" source study; 19th c.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inconnu’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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It's a Fish
kelpfish, fatfin, dollarfish, barrelfish, palometa, poppy-fish, ballan-wrasse, sweetlips, bichir, finpike, bergall, cunner and 192 more...
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250 Further Spelling Words
Another compilation of spelling words suitable for intermediate to advanced spellers.
venturi, aesir, affenpinscher, rottweiler, amanuensis, balletomane, hansard, sangfroid, yukata, capriccio, cuisse, heriot and 237 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Salmon
All salmon all the time!
Also see asativium's excellent Salmon I am list.salmon, Salmon, Salmon of Knowledge, the Salmon of Lly..., chinook salmon, kipper, spent fish, foul fish, kelts, kelt, shedder, baggit and 70 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2014 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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poetic & exotic
gloaming, nacreous, limpid, lambent, limn, elegiac, arenaceous, boreal, harlequin, sphinx, alfresco, coruscate and 109 more...
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Anzac Day
Words heard on and around Anzac Day, a public holiday in Australia on 25th April. It commemmorates the landings on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War I by ANZAC forces, ie. the Aust...
cenotaph, dawn service, kokoda, servicemen, servicewomen, anzac, gallipoli, the dardanelles, digger, simpson and his d..., tin hat, medal and 77 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for inconnu.
hernesheir It's a fish. Jan 2, 2012
bilby "...most of the gravestones are marked either 'Inconnu' or 'A soldier of the Great War known unto God' like so many graves we saw over these three days."
- web page, Brian Ralph. Apr 25, 2008