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    CROSSOPTERYGII

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibiansplay

    Synonyms:

    Crossopterygii; subclass Crossopterygii

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Crossopterygii" is a kind of...):

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "Crossopterygii"):

    crossopterygian; lobe-finned fish; lobefin (any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form)

    family Latimeridae; Latimeridae (extinct except for the coelacanth)

    Holonyms ("Crossopterygii" is a member of...):

    class Osteichthyes; Osteichthyes (a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage)

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