mahseer
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of mahseer
from Hindi
Example Sentences
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The fish is similar anatomically to the Tor Putitora, an endangered Asian fish, which is also known as the Putitor Mahseer or Golden Mahseer fish.
From Fox News
The snow leopard, the brown bear, the snow trout and the golden mahseer fish are among the threatened mountain species endangered by these plans.
From New York Times
On the fourth lived the Mahasreh, a cluster of related families who had moved to Ramallah upon the takeover of their town, Beit Mahseer, in the war of 1948.
From Literature
Technically the humpback mahseer already has a name, just not a scientific one as established by a formal description in research literature.
From Scientific American
Research in the past five years has indicated that at least four mahseer species in south Asia are already endangered.
From Scientific American
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