Hauriant

//ˈhɔːɹɪənt// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a fish, etc.: in a vertical orientation, with its head up (to chief) and tail down (to base). not-comparable

    "three salmon hauriant"

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naiant

Etymology

From Latin hauriēns (“drawing (water, etc.); draining”), the present participle of hauriō (“to draw (water, etc.); to drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“to draw water”).

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