单词 | aquatic vertebrate |
释义 | aquatic vertebrate (once / 3939771 pages) n WORD FAMILY aquatic vertebrate: aquatic vertebrates USAGE EXAMPLESPractically all aquatic vertebrates lead a swimming life, neither sessile nor creeping. Tyler, John Mason, The Whence and the Whither of Man...(2010) They are wanting in the lower aquatic vertebrates. Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, The Evolution of Man — Volume 2(2010) n animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water Hypo|Hyper agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms placodermfish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws fishany of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills bottom-dweller, bottom-feedera fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water bottom lurkersa fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water ostracodermextinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic heterostracanextinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian cephalaspid, osteostracanextinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head anaspidextinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian conodontsmall (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes cyclostomeprimitive aquatic vertebrate lamper eel, lamprey, lamprey eelprimitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue hag, hagfish, slime eelseellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies cartilaginous fish, chondrichthianfishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified fingerlinga young or small fish game fish, sport fishany fish providing sport for the angler food fishany fish used for food by human beings rough fishany fish useless for food or sport or even as bait young fisha fish that is young mouthbreederany of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths spawnera female fish at spawning time northern snakeheada voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China; can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days; a threat to American populations of fish bony fishany fish of the class Osteichthyes A. testudineus, Anabas testudineus, climbing percha small perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air; has spiny pectoral fins that enable it to travel on land craniate, vertebrate animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium |
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