The corpus record — Latin

melanurus

melanurus · m

a kind of sea-fish

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Where it lives

Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mĕlănūrus — Lewis & Short

mĕlănūrus, i, m., = mela/nouros (black-tail),

I a kind of sea-fish, Enn. ap. App. Mag. p. 299 (Heduph. v. 7 Vahl.); Ov. Hal. 113; Col. 8, 16, 8; Plin. 32, 2, 8, § 17; 32, 11, 53, § 149.

Where it came from

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