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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ichthyology, a genus of centrarchid fishes, the type of the subfamily Micropterinæ, established by Lacépède in 1802.
  • noun In ornithology, a genus of sea-ducks of the family Anatidæ: and subfamily Fuligulinæ, named by Lesson in 1831.
  • noun In entomology, a genus of coleopterous insects.

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  • noun American freshwater black basses

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