rare. [L. umbra, perh. the same word as prec.]
1. The grayling; = UMBER sb.2
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., 627. Both these rivers are full of salmons and trouts, but Wy of the twaine is the better, affording the best kind of them which they call Vmbras.
1708. Kersey, Umbra,… the Vmber, a sort of Fish.
1769. Pennant, Brit. Zool., III. 262. It is a very swift swimmer and disappears like the transient passage of a shadow, from whence we believe is derived the name of Umbra.
2. A sciænoid fish of the genus Umbrina, esp. the Mediterranean species U. cirrosa.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v.
1755. Dict. Arts & Sci., Sciæna,… this genus comprehends the umbra and the umbrino.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 43. A sandy bottom, though not absolutely bad for flat fish, suits the pelagians … best; such as, e.g. auratas, the dentex, and Punic and indigenous umbras.
