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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: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Bone
noun · 78% connection
One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony subs…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
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: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Buckler
noun · 78% connection
One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
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: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Ceratodus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discov…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Chondro-
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Chondroganoidea
noun · 78% connection
An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Chondropterygii
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Chondrostei
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Coccosteus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Crossopterygii
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
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: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Dipnoi
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphib…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Elasmobranch
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Elasmobranchii
n. pl. · 78% connection
A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimaera. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Endoskeleton
noun · 78% connection
the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
Exoskeleton
noun · 78% connection
The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, ganoid, fishes, including, large.
