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piranha
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun piranha has 2 senses
- piranha(n = noun.person) marauder, predator, vulture - someone who attacks in search of booty; Array is a kind of aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker
- piranha(n = noun.animal) caribe, pirana - small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals; Array is a kind of characid, characin, characin fish
has particulars: moss-trooper
is a member of genus serrasalmus, serrasalmus
OXFORD DICTIONARY
piranha, n. (also piraya) any of various freshwater predatory fish of the genera Pygocentrus, Rooseveltiella, or Serrasalmus, native to S. America and having sharp cutting teeth.
Etymology
Port. f. Tupi, var. of piraya scissors
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