Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lates

Lates , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} a fish of the Nile.]

(Zoology) A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (Lates calcarifer) is found in the Ganges and other Indian rivers. They are valued as food fishes.