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Webster 1913 Edition

Oreosoma

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Oˊre-o-so′ma

,

Noun.

pl.

[NL., from Gr.

ὄρος

,

-εος

, mountain +

σῶμα

body.]

(Zool.)

A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.