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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Native name.]

(Zool.)

A remarkable ganoid fish (

Polypterus bichir

) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See

a bichir

bichir ‎(plural bichirs)

A group of ray-finned fish of the family Polypteridae in the order Polypteriformes.

fish