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umbrine

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of several food fishes of the genus Umbrina of drums.

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From umb(e)r + -ine, borrowed from translingual Umbrina, coined by French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1817 on page 174 of Volume I of Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation as a Latinization of French Ombrines (“shadowy ones”) from ombre + -ines, Old French onbre, ombre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h2mr-u-, *h2mrup-.