Also erron. limni-. [f. Gr. λίμνη lake + -METER.] An apparatus for measuring the variations of level in lakes.
1852. Th. Ross, Humboldt’s Trav., II. xvi. 14. The Marquis del Toro has undertaken to put this design into execution … establishing limnometers, on a bottom of gneiss rock, so common in the lake of Valencia.
1879. Nature, 23 Oct., 615/2. M. Edouard Sarasin has recently established a registering limnimeter … near the eastern extremity of the Lake of Geneva.
