mahseer

/ (ˈmɑːsɪə) /

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noun

any of various large freshwater Indian cyprinid fishes, such as Barbus tor

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Word Origin for mahseer

from Hindi

Words nearby mahseer

Mahound, mahout, Mahratta, Mahratti, Mähren, mahseer, mahua, mahuang, Mahy, mahzor, Maia

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How to use mahseer in a sentence

Though called the salmon of India, the mahseer is really a species of barbel.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 4|Various
I rather think the Taiping water is too discoloured and sandy for Mahseer.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah|William G. Burn Murdoch
You have heard of the famous mahseer—some of them over eighty or a hundred pounds weight?
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier|James Inglis
There was a movement under the cloth, and a little snake wriggled out, to be back-broken by the butt of the mahseer-rod.
Life's Handicap|Rudyard Kipling

I never myself eat any mahseer, or other Indian river fish, anything like it.
The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains|Augustus Henry Irby