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  • The word fish has passed through many varied forms since it was _piscis_ in the old Latin tongue, and the same is true of shark and skate, which in the same language were _carcharus_ and _squatus_.

    The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

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