Graining

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 345

Graining, a kind of dace found in the Mersey and some few English rivers, and in Swiss lakes, distinguished by Pennant and Yarrell as a separate species (Luciscus lancastriensis), but regarded by Günther as only a local variety of the dace (L. vulgaris). See DACE.

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