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tlhapi
Tswana · long-standing
"fish"
a general Setswana word for fish, used across southern Africa
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Tilapia
English · 1840
"a genus of freshwater fish"
Latinized by Scottish zoologist Andrew Smith when naming the fish genus
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tilapia
English · 1900s
"a farmed freshwater fish popular worldwide as food"
became everyday English as the fish grew into a major global food source
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