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Anguilla   Listen
noun
Anguilla  n.  
1.
A British colony, comprising an island in the Caribbean Sea, east of Puerto Rico, with a total area of 91 sq km. Its population in 1996 was estimated at 10,424. The official language is English.
2.
The type genus of the Anguillidae: eels.
Synonyms: genus Anguilla.





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... e, we have tuae soundes, quhilk it is hard to judge quhilk is simplest; as, an el, ulna; and an el, anguilla; hel, infernus; and an hel, calx pedis. Heer I wald commend to our men quhae confoundes these the imitation of the south, quhilk doth wel distinguish these soundes, wryting the el, ulna, with the voual e, and eel, anguilla, ...
— Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue - A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles • Alexander Hume


Words linked to "Anguilla" :   the Indies, genus Anguilla, common eel, Anguillidae, freshwater eel, West Indies, family Anguillidae


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