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A historical county in northern Scotland, absorbed into Grampian Region in 1975.
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A local government district in Grampian Region from 1975 until Grampian Region's abolition in 1996.
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A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
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An unincorporated community in Doniphan County, Kansas, United States.
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noun
Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
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family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: moray eel
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Broader terms: eel
History
From Medieval Latin Moravia, Morauia, from Scottish Gaelic Moireibh, Moireabh, Moreb, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *mori (“sea”) + *trebā (“settlement”), of Pictish origin.
From Portuguese moreia, from Latin murēna (“sea eel, lamprey”), from Ancient Greek σμύραινα (smúraina), from σμύρος (smúros, “sea eel”).
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