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Definition of Caribe
1. Noun. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
Generic synonyms: Characid, Characin, Characin Fish
Group relationships: Genus Serrasalmus, Serrasalmus
Definition of Caribe
1. n. A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo of many species, remarkable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results.
Definition of Caribe
1. the piranha [n -S] - See also: piranha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caribe
Literary usage of Caribe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Venezuela: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook with a Chapter on the Dutch by Purl Lord Bell (1922)
"The total exports of the small port of Rio caribe during 1919 amounted to ...
Rio caribe received a total of 2218 tons, valued at 3056,- 889 bolivars ..."
2. Access EPA: State Environmental Libraries (1994)
"... Monday - Friday Time Zone: Atlantic Description of Collection and Services:
The Centre de Information Ambiental del caribe (CIAC) (eng. tr., ..."
3. The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed by Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray (1869)
"... Jaguars—Don Ignacio and Donna Isabella—Water-fowl—Nocturna) Howlings in the
Forest—caribe-fish—Adventure with a Jaguar—Manatees—Mouth of the Rio Apure. ..."
4. Venezuela by Leonard Victor Dalton (1912)
"... Bermudez asphalt lake— Carupano—" Ron bianco "—Sulphur and gold—Rio caribe—
Peninsula of Paria—Cristobal Colon—An ambitious project— The Delta—the Golfo ..."
5. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... increase and expansion of the caribe has already driven moat of the Sambos,
who were established to the northward and westward of Cape Gracias á Dios, ..."
6. The Modern Voyager & Traveller Through Europe, Asia, Africa, & America by William Adams (1832)
"... kinds of them about their habitations, which they had never before observed.
One morning the Indians in the boat caught a fish called the caribe or ..."
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