Definition of Gimnotus

Definition of Gimnotus

Gymnotus, an electric eel of South America, and found in the fresh waters of Brazil and Guiana.

- Wikipedia

||Gym*no"tus (j&ibreve;m*nō"tŭs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. gymno`s naked + nw^tos the back: cf. F. gymnote.] (Zoöl.) A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power.

One fearful shock, fearful but momentary, like that from the electric blow of the gymnotus.

De Quincey.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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