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Definition of Arapaimas
1. arapaima [n] - See also: arapaima
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arapaimas
Literary usage of Arapaimas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"THE arapaimas — Family ... which may be collectively known as arapaimas (although
this name properly belongs only to the Brazilian species here figured), ..."
2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"The arapaimas are large fresh-water fishes, confined to the tropics, ...
Four species of arapaimas are distinguished by the presence of " barbels " on the ..."
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