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bur⋅bot

  [bur-buht]
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–noun, plural -bots, (especially collectively) -bot.
a freshwater cod, Lota lota, of Europe, Asia, and North America, having an elongated body and a barbel on the chin.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME < MF bourbotte, var. of bourbete, deriv. of bourbeter to wallow in mud, equiv. to bourbe mud + -t- freq. suffix + -er inf. ending
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bur·bot   (bûr'bət)   
n.   pl. burbot or bur·bots
A freshwater food fish (Lota lota) of the Northern Hemisphere, related to and resembling the cod and having barbels on the nose and chin. Also called cusk, eelpout.

[Middle English, from Old French borbote, from borbeter, to move about in mud.]
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