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▪ I. lates|ˈleɪtiːz| [mod.L. (Cuvier & Valenciennes Histoire naturelle des Poissons (1828) II. 88), f. Gr. λάτος Nile perch.] A large fish of the genus so called, esp. the Nile perch (Nile), Lates niloticus; = latus2.
1920Blackw. Mag. May 655/1 Playing a giant lates is no joke. 1921W. Radcliffe Fishing from Earliest Times xxv. 326 A picture of a bronze mummy-case containing remains of a small Lates. ▪ II. lates obs. form of lattice. |