loach

POS

Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun loach has 1 sense

loach(n = noun.animal) Array - slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes; Array

is a kind of

cypriniform fish

is a member of cobitidae, family cobitidae

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CIDE DICTIONARY

loach, n. [OE. loche, F. loche.].

Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (Nemachilus barbatulus) is used as a food fish. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

loach, n. any small edible freshwater fish of the family Cobitidae.

Etymology

ME f. OF loche, of unkn. orig.