An alternative spelling of anilao, a Philippine grouper fish.
A variant orthography of 'anilao', reflecting different transliteration choices from Tagalog into English. Such spelling variations are common when indigenous words enter European languages.
The spellings 'anilao' and 'anilau' show how English struggles to represent unfamiliar sounds from other languages—the final vowel sound could reasonably be spelled as either 'o' or 'u', making both spellings technically defensible.
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