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hauriant

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hau⋅ri⋅ant

  [hawr-ee-uhnt]
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–adjective Heraldry.
(of a fish) represented as erect, with the head upward: a dolphin hauriant.
Origin:
1565–75; var. of haurient < L haurient- (s. of hauriēns) drawing, scooping up, prp. of haurīre; see haustellum, -ant, -ent
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