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Definition of Abramis
1. Noun. European fishes.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Cyprinidae, Family Cyprinidae
Member holonyms: Abramis Brama, European Bream
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abramis
Literary usage of Abramis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"Abramis, Cuv. Have neither spines nor barbels ; their dorsal is short, placed
behind the ventrals, and their anal is long. We have two species. ..."
2. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1864)
""Western Andes of Ecuador. ab. Types of the species, 31 lines long. From Mr.
Fraser's Collection. 10. Tetragonopterus abramis. Jenyns, Zool. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1910)
"Abramis sopa Pall., from Astrachan, falls in the same group as A. vimba on
scale-characters, ... Abramis is considered to he a hybrid between ..."
4. Fishing and Hunting on Russian Waters by Oskar Andreevich Grimm (1883)
"Abramis brama L. —Found everywhere in fresh water and in the Sea of Azoff, ...
Abramis vimba L. — In the rivers and fresher parts oj the Baltic, ..."
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