单词 | bony-skeletoned |
释义 | > as lemmasbony-skeletoned bony-skeletoned adj. (of a fish) having a bony rather than a cartilaginous skeleton; (in later use) spec. designating a fish belonging to the vertebrate class Osteichthyes; cf. bony fish n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [adjective] > having a skeleton ossean1688 osseous1828 bony-skeletoned1852 intravertebrated1855 intravertebrate1887 1852 Family Tutor 3 156 They were all cartilaginous—a striking feature of distinction from existing fishes, among which the bony-skeletoned are numerous, the cartilaginous few. 1969 T. C. Lethbridge Monkey's Tail ii. 19 What pressure of natural selection produced the bony-skeletoned fish? 2002 A. C. Ziegler Hawaiian Nat. Hist., Ecol., & Evol. xii. 144 Osteichthyes, the bony-skeletoned fishes. < as lemmas |
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