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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An unidentified parasite of the trout, probably an epizoic crustacean. Also called trout-louse.
  • noun See sub-.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of worm or larva.

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Examples

  • It's an inaus­pi­cious mes­sage for a series which so far has staunchly avoided anime tropes, but unfor­tu­nately the new prot­ag­on­ist Azaka is every bit as viva­cious and anim­ated as the slang sug­gests, and it can't help but seep into the rest of the film.

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • It's an inaus­pi­cious mes­sage for a series which so far has staunchly avoided anime tropes, but unfor­tu­nately the new prot­ag­on­ist Azaka is every bit as viva­cious and anim­ated as the slang sug­gests, and it can't help but seep into the rest of the film.

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • Debussy gave to several of his compositions titles sug - gesting visual imagery, such as Reflections in the Water,

    IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968

  • November's U.K. trade figures are not as bad as the widening in the headline deficits sug gests.

    U.K. Posts Record Trade Deficit Nicholas Winning 2011

  • "Put up sample tribes, and let us choose one," Stile sug - gested.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Phineas sug - gested, feeling less secure with each step.

    Stalling 2010

  • The style of the improvised fixture sug - gested childhood, somehow.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • What the audience did not realize was that the activity un - der the whipped gelatin was quite different from that sug - gested by the dialogue.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • "When you first got here, did you find any clues sug - gesting where all this ..."

    Stalling 2010

  • The words seemed to come naturally, but they were also sug - gestive.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

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