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tench

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tench  (tnch)
n. pl. tench or tench·es
An edible Eurasian freshwater fish (Tinca tinca) having small scales and two barbels near the mouth.
[Middle English tenche, from Old French, from Late Latin tinca, probably of Celtic origin.]
tench [tɛntʃ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a European freshwater cyprinid game fish, Tinca tinca, having a thickset dark greenish body with a barbel at each side of the mouth
[from Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca]
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Noun1.tenchtench - freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water
Tinca tinca
cyprinid, cyprinid fish - soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
genus Tinca, Tinca - tench
Translations
tench [tentʃ] N (pl inv) → tenca f


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Casaubon that he had once addressed a dedication to Carp in which he had numbered that member of the animal kingdom among the viros nullo aevo perituros, a mistake which would infallibly lay the dedicator open to ridicule in the next age, and might even be chuckled over by Pike and Tench in the present.
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Maggie was frightened lest she had been doing something wrong, as usual, but presently Tom drew out her line and brought a large tench bouncing on the grass.
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