Term Fish

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....nimals provided with fins and destitute of limbs, but extended to include various crustaceans, octaceans, molluscs, etc. -- oxford English Dictionary vol IV, 1978. In Elsevier's Dictionary of Fisheries complied by P.E. Eapen, in which fish has been defined "to mean the cold blooded animals typically with backbone, gills, and fins and primarily depended on water as medium to live and breath ....

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.... fishes used as food. In the same dictionary, the meaning of Prawn is found to be - any of various shrimp like decapod crustaceans of the general palaemon, penaeus, etc., certain of which are used as food. The Oxford English Dictionary Vol. IV, 1978 gives the meaning of fish as under: "In popular language, any animal living exclusively in the water; primarily denoting vertebrate animals provid....