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(Encyclopedia)surf fish: see surfperch.walking fish
(Encyclopedia)walking fish: see climbing perch. ...Siamese fighting fish
(Encyclopedia)Siamese fighting fish: see betta.Fish, Carl Russell
(Encyclopedia)Fish, Carl Russell, 1876–1932, American historian, b. Central Falls, R.I. From 1900 to his death he taught history at the Univ. of Wisconsin. Fish considered the Univ. of Wisconsin the “most democ...Fish, Stanley Eugene
(Encyclopedia)Fish, Stanley Eugene, 1938–, American literary critic and educator, b. Providence, R.I.; grad. Univ. of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1959), Yale Univ. (M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1962). Fish has taught at the Univ. ...salmon, in zoology
(Encyclopedia)salmon sămˈən, member of the Salmonidae, a family of marine fish that spawn in freshwater, including the salmons, the trouts, and the chars (subfamily Salmoninae), the whitefish and the ciscoes (su...drum, in zoology
(Encyclopedia)drum, fish: see croaker.torpedo , in zoology
(Encyclopedia)torpedo, fish: see ray.whiting, in zoology
(Encyclopedia)whiting, fish: see croaker; harvestfish. ...Fish, New York family
(Encyclopedia)Fish, family long prominent in New York politics. Nicholas Fish, 1758–1833, b. New York City. He studied law before serving ably as a major in a New York regiment throughout the American Revolution....Browse by Subject
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