alburn

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Noun

alburn (plural alburns)

1. The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.
   • 1960, Monographiae biologicae: Volume 9

     In the total yield of cyprinids, the dominating fish is alburn, […] a small delicate fish which in dense shoals inhabits the pelagial waters of the lake.

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