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Acipenser
noun · 78% connection
A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Boxfish
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Buckler
noun · 78% connection
One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Cataphracted
adjective · 78% connection
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Cestraciont
noun · 78% connection
A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Mos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Cuirassed
adjective · 78% connection
Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; -- said of certain fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Diodon
noun · 78% connection
A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Echinoidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, compos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Eye
noun · 78% connection
The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the te…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Ganocephala
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Ganoidei
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Gymnodont
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Immobilize
verb · 78% connection
To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Immovable
adjective · 78% connection
Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remain immovable.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Labyrinthodon
noun · 78% connection
A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Lead
noun · 78% connection
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
Loricata
n. pl. · 78% connection
A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plectognath, fishes, body, covered.
