euripus

American  

[yoo-rahy-puhs, yuh-] / yʊˈraɪ pəs, yə- /

noun

PLURAL

euripi

1. a strait, especially one in which the flow of water is violent.

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euripus British  

/ jʊˈraɪpəs /

noun

1. a strait or channel with a strong current or tide

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Etymology

Origin of euripus

1595–1605; < Latin eurīpus < Greek eúrīpos (applied especially to the strait between Euboea and Boeotia, equivalent to eu- eu- + -rīpos rusher, akin to rhīpḗ rush

Example Sentences

It is in the Works and Days especially that we glean indications of Hesiod’s rank and condition in life, that of a stay-at-home farmer of the lower class, whose sole experience of the sea was a single voyage of 40 yds. across the Euripus, and an old-fashioned bachelor whose misogynic views and prejudice against matrimony have been conjecturally traced to his brother Perses having a wife as extravagant as himself.

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The Euripus of funds and actions.

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Euripus, ū-rī′pus, n. an arm of the sea with strong currents: the water-channel between the arena and cavea of a Roman hippodrome.

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The widening of the Euripus Channel at Chalcis to the extent of 21.56 metres was accomplished in 1894.

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And these fish indeed have eggs in the greatest number at those seasons, but they are never without them; and they have them in the greatest numbers at the time of full moon, and in the warm weather, with the exception of those fish which are found in the Euripus of the Pyrrhæans; for they are best in the winter, and they are small, but full of eggs.

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