silure

See also: Silure

English

Etymology

From Latin silurus (“a sort of river fish”), from Ancient Greek σίλουρος (sílouros, “a very large sort of river fish”).

Noun

silure (plural silures)

1. A fish of the genus Silurus, such as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “silure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Luries, Suriel

French

Etymology

From Latin silūrus, in turn from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.lyʁ/

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Noun

silure m (plural silures)

1. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

   Synonym: silure glane

Further reading

• “silure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

silūre

1. vocative singular of silūrus