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gidder
خدر ḫadar
n. ḫdr – electric ray, torpedo (zool.) show/hide quotes-
Aris. Anim. II 696a27: et sibi simile habet latitudinem loco alarum posteriorum, et natat per illam latitudinem, sicut modus qui dicitur gidder et rana
Kruk: وكلما كان مثله فله عرض بدل الجناحين التى تكون فى المؤخر فهى تعوم بذلك العرض مثل الصنف الذى يسمى خدرا وضفدعا
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Aris. Anim. II 696a30: Et modus qui dicitur gidder habet duas alas prope caudam
- 2 Aris. Anim. II
Ullmann 2002, 431. This sense of the Arabic term is not documented in Lisān, Freytag, Lane, Dozy and Wehr.
< Arabic. The Latin term does not appear in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.