Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The swell-fish or ball-fish, Tetraodon fahaka, found in the lower Nile and the neighboring seas.
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Egypt -- Paucity of the flora: aquatic plants, the papyrus and the lotus; the sycamore and the date-palm, the acacias, the dôm-palms -- The fauna: the domestic and wild animals; serpents, the urstus; the hippopotamus and the crocodile; birds; fish, the fahaka.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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