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    GANOID FISH

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny coveringplay

    Synonyms:

    ganoid; ganoid fish

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("ganoid fish" 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 fish"):

    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 fish" 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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