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echenais

echenais [CL < ἐχενηίς] , remora, sucking-fish (conf. w. echinus). de †ocenao pisce. / forma manet tenui, cum semipedalis imago est; / et tamen inmensas solus retinebo liburnas Hwætberht Aen. 54 tit.; semipedalis echinus / herens cui fuerit fixam quasi litore navem / detinet V. Merl. 836; que est hominum fortitudo ‥ quorum plenam navim echinus in mari retentat? Simil. Anselmi 52; echinus piscis est navis retinens Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 195.

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