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Definition of Mahseers
1. mahseer [n] - See also: mahseer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mahseers
Literary usage of Mahseers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rod in India: Being Hints how to Obtain Sport, with Remarks on the by Henry Sullivan Thomas (1897)
"... which was light blue all over except on the abdomen which was white, and the
iris which was yellow. , These last four mahseers were all of the form ..."
2. Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western by Edward Frederick Knight (1895)
"... here were recorded, with more or less artistic skill in charcoal and pencil,
the stories of the sahibs' sport. I saw pictures of fifty-pound mahseers, ..."
3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1886)
"... or any other Indian fishes ; a Mahseer no more resembles a salmon than a
Buccaneer might an English naval officer. Next after the mahseers come the ..."
4. Afoot Through the Kashmir Valleys by Marion Doughty (1901)
"... the bears that abound in his hills, or the mahseers (finest fish in India)
that inhabit his rivers. As twelve miles had to be traversed before I could ..."
5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1868)
"The various species termed " mahseers " belong to this genus ; a few of them
attain a very large size. In the Madras Presidency the following appears to be ..."
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