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- 2. A large edible fish that is a popular sporting fish, much prized for its pink flesh. Salmon mature in the sea but migrate to freshwater streams to spawn
- 4. A large marine fish with a small barbel on the chin
- 6. A gregarious burrowing plant-eating mammal, with long ears, long hind legs, and a short tail
- 7. The large oval brown seed of a tropical palm, consisting of a hard woody husk surrounded by fibre, lined with edible white flesh and containing a clear liquid
- 10. A spherical fruit with a tough golden-orange outer skin and sweet red gelatinous flesh containing many seeds
- 11. liver A large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates, involved in many metabolic processes
- 14. Each of a pair of organs in the abdominal cavity of mammals, birds, and reptiles, that excrete urine
- 15. An elongated, fast-swimming cephalopod mollusc with eight arms and two long tentacles, typically able to change colour
- 16. Any of a number of bivalve molluscs with a brown or purplish-black shell
- 18. A crustacean, found chiefly on seashores, with a broad carapace, stalked eyes, and five pairs of legs, the first pair of which are modified as pincers
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- 1. A chiefly freshwater fish of the salmon family, found in both Eurasia and North America and highly valued for food and game
- 3. A large marine crustacean with a cylindrical body, stalked eyes, and the first of its five pairs of limbs modified as pincers
- 4. A crustacean, found chiefly on seashores, with a broad carapace, stalked eyes, and five pairs of legs, the first pair of which are modified as pincers
- 5. A waterbird with a broad blunt bill, short legs, webbed feet, and a waddling gait
- 8. fruit The edible purple fruit of a kind of passion flower that is grown commercially, especially in tropical America and the Caribbean
- 9. The flesh of a young calf, used as food
- 11. A deep-bodied freshwater fish, typically with barbels around the mouth. Carp are farmed for food in some parts of the world and are often kept in large ponds
- 12. A soft pear-shaped fruit with sweet dark flesh and many small seeds, eaten fresh or dried
- 13. Any of a number of bivalve molluscs with rough irregular shells. Several kinds are eaten (especially raw) as a delicacy and may be farmed for food or pearls
- 17. bass Any of a number of marine fishes that are related to or resemble the common perch, in particular
