alburn

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noun

The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.

OriginLate Latin alburnus →
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Meanings

nounalburn (plural alburns)

plural alburns

  1. The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.

    It took patience to catch alburns, those hand-sized fish in the Stolpe.

    1998, George Grosz, George Grosz: An Autobiography, page 7
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    In the total yield of cyprinids, the dominating fish is alburn, […] a small delicate fish which in dense shoals inhabits the pelagial waters of the lake.

    1960, Monographiae biologicae: Volume 9

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
bleak

Origin

  1. Late Latinalburnus
  2. Englishalburn

Borrowed from Late Latin alburnus. Cognate with alburnum and auburn.

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APA

alburn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alburn

MLA

“alburn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alburn. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “alburn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alburn.

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