Definition of Petrale

1. a food fish [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Petrale

petitory
petless
petlike
petnap
petnaper
petnapers
petnaping
petnapings
petnapped
petnapper
petnappers
petnapping
petnaps
petong
petrale (current term)
petrale sole
petrales
petralogy
petraries
petrary
petre
petrean
petrel
petrels
petres
petrescence
petrescent
petrichloral
petrichor

Literary usage of Petrale

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1900)
"The precipitous slopes are beautifully wooded at places. Midway is the small but fertile Piano dei Cappuccini, with the rock petrale to the right, ..."

2. The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome: A Companion Book for Students and by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1897)
"... ranks first among the petrale or stone quarries within the walls. It has taken four centuries and fifteen generations of Fig. 142. ..."

3. The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of by Cotton Mather, Increase Mather (1862)
"The awful hand of Ood now upon ut, in letting loose of evil Angel» among ut to pei-petrale such ..."

4. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1848)
"I shrunk from the f lly we were about to pe. petrale, yet had not courage enough to dare my companion's sneer, and turn boldly back; vainly hoping he would ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1907)
"TABLE I.—Production of Petroleum in Roumania from 1895 to 1904 (not Including the Quantity Used Locally for Fuel).* a Reported by the Moniteur de petrale ..."

6. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1842)
"... best is that to which Mr. Hill, of Dumfries, resorted, and which has been employed by M. Maunoir, Dr. O'Beirne, and petrale, namely, puncture and seton. ..."

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