The New International Encyclopædia/Aimara

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Edition of 1905. See also Erythrinidae on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.

AIMARA, ī̇-mä′rȧ. Any of many large carnivorous fishes of South America, especially common in the Amazonian rivers, some twenty species of which form the heterognathous family Erytlirinidæ and the genus Macrodon. They are also called trahiras.