单词 | osteichthyes |
释义 | Osteichthyesn. With plural agreement. A large class of fishes, including the majority of modern species, members of which are characterized by a predominantly bony skeleton and the possession of jaws; fishes of this class. ΚΠ 1880 T. H. Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 662 The scheme of the arrangement of the Vertebrata will stand thus:... Herpetichthyes... Osteichthyes. 1915 A. E. Shipley & E. W. MacBride Zool. (ed. 3) xx. 453 In Osteichthyes the bone is always present. 1933 Science 11 Aug. 116 It is highly probable that the early development of the Osteichthyes took place..in highland areas for which no depositional record is preserved. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xvi. 233 (caption) A large mouth black bass showing the typical ctenoid scales of the class Osteichthyes. 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xiii. 352 Osteichthyes (in the form of bony fish) are first known from the Devonian. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1880 |
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