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burbot

bur.bot \'b*r-b*t\ n or burbot also burbots [ME borbot, fr. MF bourbotte, 
   fr. bourbeter to burrow in the] pl mud : a freshwater fish (Lota lota) of 
   the cod family having barbels on  the nose and chin and existing in the 
   northern parts of the Old World and the New