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Gymnotus  n.  (Zool.) A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power. "One fearful shock, fearful but momentary, like that from the electric blow of the gymnotus."






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... move himself in bed without luminous corruscations. Such may have been the case of those people, who have been related to have taken fire spontaneously, and to have been reduced to ashes. The electric concussion from the gymnotus electricus, and torpedo, are other instances of the power of the animal system to accumulate electricity, as in these it is used as a weapon of defence, or for the purpose of ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin



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