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Definition of Pirana

1. Noun. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.

Definition of Pirana

1. piranha [n -S] - See also: piranha

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pirana

Literary usage of Pirana

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

1. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency by Sir James MacNabb Campbell, Reginald Edward Enthoven (1901)
"In their appearance speech dress and houses pirana Matías do not differ from ... the third of the five pirana shrines, so called from the five devotees who ..."

2. An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh and of the Siege of the Lucknow Residency by Martin Richard Gubbins (1858)
"I must not omit to mention pirana, a native architect, ... pirana used to work steadily under fire, and I have seen a brick which he was about to lay ..."

3. A smaller Hindustani and English dictionary by Duncan Forbes (1861)
"A. plr-mard, an old man. p. [pearls), to spit. A. pirana, a. to thread (as a needle), to string (as piroz, victory ; adj. victorious, ..."

4. Compilation of Reports of Committee ... 1789-1901 by United States, Senate, Congress, Committee on Foreign Relations (1901)
"San pirana, July 17, 1872.—Having proceeded with the investigation relative to the killing of James Soto, by the American, James Pétiller, a summons was ..."

5. A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (Arabic and Persian) by Claud Field (1911)
"I. " Dream'st thou tyrant thou hasl wreaked on me thy rage and scorn ? The burthen from my neck has passed, on thine must ever stay.'1 (EASTWICK). " pirana ..."

6. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency by Sir James MacNabb Campbell, Reginald Edward Enthoven (1901)
"In their appearance speech dress and houses pirana Matías do not differ from ... the third of the five pirana shrines, so called from the five devotees who ..."

7. An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh and of the Siege of the Lucknow Residency by Martin Richard Gubbins (1858)
"I must not omit to mention pirana, a native architect, ... pirana used to work steadily under fire, and I have seen a brick which he was about to lay ..."

8. A smaller Hindustani and English dictionary by Duncan Forbes (1861)
"A. plr-mard, an old man. p. [pearls), to spit. A. pirana, a. to thread (as a needle), to string (as piroz, victory ; adj. victorious, ..."

9. Compilation of Reports of Committee ... 1789-1901 by United States, Senate, Congress, Committee on Foreign Relations (1901)
"San pirana, July 17, 1872.—Having proceeded with the investigation relative to the killing of James Soto, by the American, James Pétiller, a summons was ..."

10. A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (Arabic and Persian) by Claud Field (1911)
"I. " Dream'st thou tyrant thou hasl wreaked on me thy rage and scorn ? The burthen from my neck has passed, on thine must ever stay.'1 (EASTWICK). " pirana ..."

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