单词 | teleost |
释义 | teleostn.adj. Zoology. A. n. A fish belonging to the group Teleostei (now an infraclass), which comprises the majority of ray-finned fishes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > member of ossean1835 teleostean1858 teleost1863 teleocephal1872 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. iii. 278 (note) The skeleton is bony, as the name Teliost..implies. 1895 B. Dean Fishes Living & Fossil vii. 139 ‘Teleost’ must be used in a popular and convenient..sense..to denote..the modern ‘bony fish’. 1926 H. M. Kyle Biol. Fishes xii. 290 It is amongst the freshwater Teleosts..that the secondary sexual characters are most developed. 1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles i. 15 Had He picked a teleost Or an arthropod to inspire, Would our death also have come? 1979 C. E. Bond Biol. Fishes i. 6 Arranging the teleosts into lower, middle, and higher levels of organization may be a gross oversimplification. 2015 P. B. Wignall Worst of Times iv. 91 True modern-style fish, called teleosts, did not appear until later in the Triassic. B. adj. Of or relating to the group Teleostei of ray-finned fishes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [adjective] teleostean1858 teleosteous1865 teleost1872 1872 T. Gill Arrangem. Families Fishes p. xxxviii The most generalized of the physostome Teleocephals seems to have inherited and retained..the primitive characters of the common progenitors of the Teleost fishes. 1891 Cent. Dict. 6216 (caption) Skull of Pike (Esox lucius), a teleost fish. 1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. ii. 24 In teleost fishes, work must be done to maintain the osmotic pressure of their blood at its normal value. 1975 Nature 10 Apr. 483/1 (heading) Teleost ancestry, or naming of parts. 2015 K. L. M. Martin Beach-spawning Fishes ii. 21 Many teleost species have found ways to nest in these coastal locations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1863 |
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