alburn

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alburn

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Borrowed from Late Latin alburnus. Cognate with alburnum and auburn.

noun alburns

  1. The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales. 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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@misc{alburn_2026,
  title = {alburn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/alburn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}