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Portunus

noun
1.
Type genus of the family Portunidae.  Synonym: genus Portunus.



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Portunus puber


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"Portunus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ocean! on whose waves I ride, A milk-white bull upon the shore I vow, And with its entrails will I strew the tide, And on your altars make the wine outflow." Fair Panopea hears him from below, The Nereids hear, and old Portunus plies His own great hand, to push them as they go. Swifter than arrow to the shore she flies, Swifter than Southern gale, and in ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil


Words linked to "Portunus" :   family Portunidae, English lady crab, arthropod genus, Portunus puber, Portunidae, genus Portunus


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