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The Biology of Hypogean Fishes (Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, 21)
Aldemaro Romero Diaz
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(hmmm.. fish living below the surface of the ground.. whadda concept.)
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Here's Word #3: lacustrine, adj. (luh-KUSS-trin) of, relating to, formed in, living in, or growing in lakes. Again, an excerpt from Proust: ...at the foot of the path which led down to the artificial lake, there might be seen, in its two tiers woven of forget-me-nots and periwinkle flowers, a natural, delicate, blue garland encircling the water's luminous and shadowy brow, while the iris, flourishing its sword-blades in regal profusion, stretched out over agrimony and water-growing crowfoot the tattered fleurs-de-lis, violet and yellow, of its lacustrine sceptre.From vol 1, Swann's Wayp.s. Thanks, jheem, for the links. As you can see, I haven't quite deciphered them yet. 
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I found some sites about blind fish in limestone cave
streams.
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
a stately pleasure-dome decree,
where Alph, the sacred river, ran
through caverns measureless to man
down to a sunless sea,
That's hypogean.
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I like that poem Bill.
Rapunzel, did you look up the etymology of lacustrine? It's funny that the first syllable is pronounced luh. I would have thought it was LAC as in lacquer or shellac.
Lac (pronounced like in my two examples above) is the French word for lake, so I though that the words might be related somewhere deep in the past.
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