Definition of "gymnotus" [‖Gym•no•tus]

• Any of the genus Gymnotus of electric knifefishes. (noun)

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• "It is well known that the gymnotus is a kind of eel, with a blackish, slimy skin, furnished along the back and tail with an apparatus composed of plates joined by vertical lamellæ, and acted on by nerves of considerable power."
• "Accordingly, the Tamanac Indians call the gymnotus, in their expressive language, arimna, which means something that deprives of motion."
• "The discharges of the gymnotus, at first somewhat weak, become more and more violent, and there would come a time when, exhausted by the shocks, he would be rendered powerless."