"Acanthopterygious" is a word in ENGLISH
Having fins in which the rays are hard and
spinelike; spiny-finned.
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Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes.
Read the complete definitionA group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen …
Read the complete definitionA spine or prickly fin.
Read the complete definitionA group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.
Read the complete definitionA spiny-finned fish.
Read the complete definitionBelonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.
Read the complete definitionAn order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as …
Read the complete definitionOne of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.
Read the complete definitionAbbreviated ad fin. To the end. It is used in citations to books, as a direction to read from the …
Read the complete definitionA group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.
Read the complete definitionDestitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.
Read the complete definitionAn order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.
Read the complete definitionIn old English law. A boundary tree; a tree used for making a boundary line. Bract, fols. 167, 207b
Read the complete definitionA prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, …
Read the complete definitionThe primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.
Read the complete definitionbarílis n k. o. blue-finned tuna which grows to 3.
Read the complete definitionA bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium.
Read the complete definitionAn edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.
Read the complete definitionHaving two rays; as, a biradiate fin.
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