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Montagu (iou)



Montagu noun. M19.
[George Montagu (1751-1815), Brit. naturalist.]
Used attrib. or in possess. to designate various animals described by Montagu.
Montagu's blenny a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, of intertidal pools around the Mediterranean and NE Atlantic. Montagu's harrier a relatively small migratory Eurasian harrier, Circus pygargus. Montagu shell (the shell of) any of various small marine bivalves of the family Montacutidae, which live as commensals on echinoderms. Montagu's sea-snail a small fish of the NE Atlantic, Liparis montagui, which feeds on littoral crustaceans.

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a North American plant that produces a substance which causes hay fever