Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of fishes.
- noun A fish of the genus Gymnotus.
- noun In entomology, a genus of curculios, based on the Brazilian G. geometricus, the Cholus geometricus of Germar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the
Gymnotus electricus , or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the
genus Gymnotus ofelectric knifefishes.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is well known that the gymnotus is a kind of eel, with a blackish, slimy skin, furnished along the back and tail with an apparatus composed of plates joined by vertical lamellæ, and acted on by nerves of considerable power.
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It is well known that the gymnotus is a kind of eel, with a blackish, slimy skin, furnished along the back and tail with an apparatus composed of plates joined by vertical lamellæ, and acted on by nerves of considerable power.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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Accordingly, the Tamanac Indians call the gymnotus, in their expressive language, arimna, which means something that deprives of motion.
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Accordingly, the Tamanac Indians call the gymnotus, in their expressive language, arimna, which means something that deprives of motion.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Very fortunately the travelers had to contend with neither gymnotus nor sucuriju, and the passage across the submerged forest, which lasted about two hours, was effected without accident.
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His limbs were becoming paralyzed little by little under the electric influences of the gymnotus, which lightly touched his body as it wrapped him in its folds.
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The discharges of the gymnotus, at first somewhat weak, become more and more violent, and there would come a time when, exhausted by the shocks, he would be rendered powerless.
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Benito had entirely lost consciousness beneath the violent shocks of the gymnotus.
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Brazilians to the gymnotus, or electric snake, which had just attacked him.
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And along the top of the water glided long and swiftly-swimming snakes, among them the formidable gymnotus, whose electric discharges successively repeated paralyze the most robust of men or animals, and end by dealing death.
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