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  • noun Plural form of loach.

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Examples

  • National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Torrent Loach Torrent Loach The two sets of crescent-shaped fins on the underside of torrent loaches work like suction cups to help them stay in place on a rock or streambed in rapidly moving waters.

    The Inner Lives of Fish 2012

  • In one case the struggling business made a hugely speculative investment in high-fin loaches, but the sensitive fish were so traumatized by vibrations from nearby power tools that they all went belly-up in just a few days.

    Swimming Upstream Donald Frazier 2010

  • Hello, puce- and azure-flecked carpet, and hello, gargantuan bean-shaped fish tank with the silver loaches and the swaying, plastic green fronds.

    Forgiving the Governor of South Carolina Heather Kirn Lanier 2011

  • While most inland waters are dominated by fishes entering from the sea, there is also a significant representation of strictly freshwater groups, including minnows (Cyprinidae) and loaches (Cobitidae and Balitoridae) that have diversified within the hotspot and account for nearly half of the endemic species and three of four endemic genera.

    Biological diversity in Japan 2008

  • The three most diverse of the 30 different families represented here are minnows and carps (Cyprinidae; 93 species and 11 endemics), river loaches (Balitoridae; 47 species and 14 endemics), and sisorid catfishes (Sisoridae; 34 species and four endemics).

    Biological diversity in the Himalayas 2008

  • And even if clown loaches seem to be known for acting dead at the bottom of the fishtank, I honestly doubt they usually curl up in a corner for 18 hours or more.

    R.I.P., fish magnio 2008

  • One of my Clown loaches died earlier this year, and an ancistrus died a few days before we went to Japan.

    My penguins magnio 2008

  • One of my clown loaches has been behaving a bit too shy since I got them in May, and for the past months it has been more and more colourless.

    R.I.P., fish magnio 2008

  • Two other loaches had been knocked down in the valley trying to support their aerorifle platoons on the ground.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • Mizner also knew from the radio chatter before they went down that fuel was getting short and that they had called in more loaches and Cobras, as well as a whole bunch of ARPs.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

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