Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of fishes, of the family Cichlidæ, found on the coasts of tropical America.
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Totahac re ita fe habente fruftra contendunt Chi* mici diuidere metallainperfedra & imperfecta, cum as Philofophis omnibus placet, ab effentia & forma vc dcfinirio, & diuifio petenia eft: & praxipue in iis, qua: fe ob '
Liber nouus de metallorum causis et transubstantiatione Thomas Morison 1593
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