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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tilapia
any freshwater cichlid of the genus Tilapia, of African waters: an important food fish.

Etymology: (< NL (1849))

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1. (noun) Tilapia, genus Tilapia
a genus of Cichlidae

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. tilapia
A freshwater fish used as an experimental organism and for food. This genus of the family Cichlidae (CICHLIDS) inhabits Central and South America (one species extends north into Texas), West Indies, Africa, Madagascar, Syria, and coastal India.

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