burbot
/ˈbəːbət
/noun
An elongated bottom-dwelling fish that is the only freshwater member of the cod family, occurring in Eurasia and North America but almost extinct in Britain.
- Lota lota, family Gadidae.
- Larger and deeper lakes, with oxygenated hypolimnions, will also have one or two larger salmonids, usually lake trout or landlocked Atlantic salmon, along with burbot and slimy sculpin.
- In outdoor mesocosm experiments, we tested the effects of decreasing shelter availability due to autumn lake-level decrease on the behavior and the growth of two littoral benthic dwellers, the juvenile burbot and the stone loach.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French borbete, probably from borbe 'mud, slime'.
Rhymes
- cryoglobulin
- cryohydrate
- cryohydrate point
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- printer's mark
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- printery
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- print hand
- printhead
- print-holder
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- printing
- printing cloth
- printing cylinder
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- printing ink
- printing key frame