Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The obsolete generic name of a Brazilian fish of the family Gymnotidæ, properly Sternarchus.
- noun A generic name of the pearl-fishes commonly called
Fierasfer .
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On the Amazonian waters is found the carapus, called by the Brazilians sarapo, belonging to the genus Gymnotus; though far smaller than the electric gymnotus.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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