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GANOID

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering

Synonyms:

ganoid; ganoid fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ganoid"):

Amia calva; bowfin; dogfish; grindle (primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America)

duckbill; paddlefish; Polyodon spathula (primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout)

Chinese paddlefish; Psephurus gladis (fish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish)

sturgeon (large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone)

billfish; gar; garfish; garpike; Lepisosteus osseus (primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth)

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

Ganoidei; order Ganoidei (a group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales)

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