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alburn

alburn noun: the bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.

Noun

alburn (plural alburns)

  1. The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.
    • In the total yield of cyprinids, the dominating fish is alburn, […] a small delicate fish which in dense shoals inhabits the pelagial waters of the lake.1960, Monographiae biologicae: Volume 9
    • It took patience to catch alburns, those hand-sized fish in the Stolpe.1998, George Grosz, George Grosz: An Autobiography, page 7

Forms of alburn

pluralalburns

Origin of alburn

Borrowed from Late Latin alburnus. Cognate with alburnum and auburn.

Questions about alburn

What does alburn mean?
Alburn means the bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.
What part of speech is alburn?
Alburn is a noun.
What is the plural of alburn?
The plural of alburn is alburns.

Words near alburn in the dictionary

  1. Albuquerque turkeys
  2. Albuquerquean
  3. Albuquerqueans
  4. Albuquerques
  5. Alburgh
  6. alburn
  7. alburnous
  8. alburns
  9. alburnum
  10. alburnums
  11. Alburquerque

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