bony-fish
111ganoid fish — noun primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering • Syn: ↑ganoid • Hypernyms: ↑teleost fish, ↑teleost, ↑teleostan • Hyponyms: ↑bowfin, ↑grindle …
112plectognath fish — noun tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines • Syn: ↑plectognath • Hypernyms: ↑spiny finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian • Hyponyms: ↑triggerfish, ↑ …
113pinecone fish — noun : a small sluggish berycoid fish (Monocentris japonicus) that has the body enclosed in a boxlike case made up of firmly fused large bony scales and is widely distributed in shallow waters of warm parts of the Indo Pacific …
114unicorn fish — noun 1. : narwhal 2. a. : any of several surgeonfishes (genus Teuthis) of the Pacific ocean having a long bony hornlike projection extending forward from the skull above the eye b. : any of various filefishes having a long dorsal spine * * * …
115ray-finned fish — n. a fish of a large group having thin fins strengthened by slender rays, including all bony fishes apart from the coelacanth and lungfishes. Compare with , teleost. ● Subclass (or class) Actinopterygii: numerous orders …
116flying fish — noun Date: circa 1511 any of numerous bony fishes (family Exocoetidae) chiefly of tropical and warm seas that are capable of long gliding flights out of water by spreading their large pectoral fins like wings …
117lantern fish — noun Date: circa 1753 any of a family (Myctophidae) of small deep sea bony fishes that have a large mouth, large eyes, and usually numerous photophores …
118alligator fish — noun Etymology: so called from its covering of bony plates : a sea poacher (as Podothecus acipenserinus) of the Pacific coast of No. America …
119bonyfish — bony·fish …
120Osteichthyes — Bony fish Temporal range: 420–0 Ma …
