Hausen: alternatives and connections

See Acipenser.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are at…

A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six fee…

A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the…

A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.

In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronou…

A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.

A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, an…

of Dozen

Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.

A large salmon (Salmo, / Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.

A large European sturgeon (Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more…

An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.

A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.

A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of stur…