_:vb6784406 . _:vb6784407 . _:vb6784406 "1774, Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature, volume IV:"@en . _:vb6784407 "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me."@en . "2" . _:vb6784405 "(archaic, or, loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water."@en . _:vb6784407 "1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick\u200E[1]:"@en . . _:vb6784406 "The whale, the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster\u2026 as men have been willing to give them all the name of fishes, it is wisest for us to conform."@en . _:vb6784405 .