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A spinose plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States esp Chilo mycterus geometricus having the power of distending its body with water or air so as to resemble a chestnut bur called also ball fish balloon fish and swellfish...
balloonfish
A fish of the genus Diodon such as Diodon holocanthus or the genus Tetraodon having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus It is similar to but smaller than the porcupinefish See Globefish and Bur fish...
Gymnodont
One of a group of plectognath fishes Gymnodontes having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates on each jaw as the diodonts and tetradonts See Bur fish Globefish Diodon...
Bur
Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants whether a pericarp a persistent calyx or an involucre as of the chestnut and burdock a seed vessel having hooks or prickles Also any weed which bears burs...
Burring machine
A machine for cleansing wool of burs seeds and other substances...
Fish
Fish, the fish whether in raw form or processed form is known as fish. In Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary one of the meaning of fish is, the flesh of a fish used as food. A fish after cleaning, cutting of head and tail or deshelling remains fish. A person dealing in fish meat is a dealer in fish, Regional Executive, Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Board v. Fancy Food, AIR 1995 SC 1620 (1624): (1995) 4 SCC 341....
Bellows fish
A European fish Centriscus scolopax distinguished by a long tubular snout like the pipe of a bellows called also trumpet fish and snipe fish...
Fish farming
Fish farming, means the breeding or rearing of fish or the cultivation of shellfish (including crustaceans and molluscs of any description) for the purpose of producing food for human consumption or for transfer to other waters, but does not include the breedings, rearing or cultivation of any fish or shellfish which are purely ornamental, or which are bred, reared or cultivated for exhibition, General Rate Act, 1967, s. 26A (4). See also Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 39, para 67, p. 58....
Royal fish
Royal fish. Whale and sturgeon. These, when either thrown ashore, or caught near the coast, are the property of the King, on account of their superior excellence, 1 Bl. Com. 290. Porpoises are also said to be royal fish; see Hall on the Sea Shore, 2nd Edn. p. 80, App. xli. The right to royal fish may be vested in a subject by grant from the Crown or prescription....
Band fish
A small red fish of the genus Cepola the ribbon fish...
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