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An alleged fish of the Ganges, able to seize and destroy elephants.
A fabulous sea-fish which ‘feeling himselfe taken with a hooke, casteth out his bowels, vntill hee hath vnloosed the hooke, and then swalloweth them…
(a) ? freshwater fish; (b) a fish that lives on land; hence, an unnatural creature.
= scolopendra, n. 1. Obsolete.