meagre

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmiːɡɚ/ Rhymes: -iːɡə(ɹ) Hyphenation: mea‧gre === Etymology 1 === From Middle French maigre. ==== Noun ==== meagre (plural meagres) An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic. 1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48, Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] . ===== Synonyms ===== (Argyrosomus regius): salmon-basse, shadefish, stone basse ===== Hypernyms ===== (fish of family Sciaenidae): croaker, drum, drumfish, hardhead, sciaenid ===== Derived terms ===== brown meagre (Sciaena umbra) ===== Translations ===== ==== Further reading ==== Argyrosomus regius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Argyrosomus regius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Argyrosomus regius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons === Etymology 2 === From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”). ==== Alternative forms ==== meager (US) ==== Adjective ==== meagre (comparative meagrer, superlative meagrest) (British spelling, common Canadian spelling) Having little flesh; lean; thin. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent Synonyms: paltry, scanty, inadequate (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Jamaican Creole: mawga ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== meagre (third-person singular simple present meagres, present participle meagring, simple past and past participle meagred) (transitive) To make lean. === Anagrams === Graeme, meager