tench

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water

From Middle English tenche, from Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca.

Compensation By C. V. Tench "Why, John!" — Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930, Unknown
Witnesses, Nicholas Thorne, Walter Prior, and John Tench. — Shakespeare's family, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
[86] Tench Francis, uncle of Sir Philip Francis, emigrated from England to Maryland, and became attorney for Lord Baltimore. — Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin

Tinca tinca

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