silure

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silure - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Silure \Si*lure"\, n. [L. silurus a sort of river fish, Gr. ???:
     cf. F. silure.] (Zool.)
     A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
     [1913 Webster]