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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

alburnus

, fr. L.

albus

white. Cf.

Auburn

(Zool.)

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

alburn ‎(plural alburns)

The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.
- 1960, Monographiae biologicae: Volume 9
  In the total yield of cyprinids, the dominating fish is alburn, […] a small delicate fish which in dense shoals inhabits the pelagial waters of the lake.
- 1998, George Grosz, George Grosz: An Autobiography (page 7)
  It took patience to catch alburns, those hand-sized fish in the Stolpe.

bleak — see bleak