weever

Meaning

Noun

  • Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past.

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Origin

  • From Middle English *wever, from Old Northern French wivre ("serpent"), from Latin vÄ«pera. wyvern and viper.

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