hauriant

hauriant
/hawr"ee euhnt/, adj. Heraldry.
(of a fish) represented as erect, with the head upward: a dolphin hauriant.
[1565-75; var. of haurient < L haurient- (s. of hauriens) drawing, scooping up, prp. of haurire; see HAUSTELLUM, -ANT, -ENT]

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