(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:49:02

La"tes (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. a fish of the Nile.] Zool.

A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer  

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