单词 | bony fish |
释义 | bony fish (once / 115876 pages) n WORD FAMILY bony fish: bony fishes USAGE EXAMPLESThe findings contradict the long-held notion that the modern jaw architecture evolved later, in the earliest bony fish. Reuters(Oct 20, 2016) Scientists had thought that placoderm jaws were only very distantly related to the three-part jaw found in modern bony fish and land vertebrates, including people. Nature(Oct 19, 2016) Ocean sunfish eat jellyfish and are the largest bony fish in the ocean. Los Angeles Times(Aug 21, 2016) n any fish of the class Osteichthyes Hypo|Hyper crossopterygian, lobe-finned fish, lobefin any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form lungfishair-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought teleost, teleost fish, teleostana bony fish of the subclass Teleostei malacopterygian, soft-finned fishany fish of the superorder Malacopterygii cornetfishslender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales needlefish, pipefishfish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates bellows fish, snipefishsmall bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth shrimp-fish, shrimpfishslender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates Aulostomus maculatus, trumpetfishtropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down Latimeria chalumnae, coelacanthfish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa ceratodusextinct lungfish billfish, gar, needlefishelongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters flying fishtropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight halfbeaktropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw Scomberesox saurus, billfish, sauryslender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fisha teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays sweeperlittle-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body ganoid, ganoid fishprimitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering fish any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills |
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