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Bony fish
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teleost
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Wikipedia
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The teleosts or Teleostei ( Greek : teleios , "complete" + osteon , "bone") are by far the largest infraclass in the class Actinopterygii , the ray-finned fishes, and make up 96 percent of all fish . This diverse group arose in the Triassic period and members ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teleost \Te"le*ost\, n. [Gr. ? complete + ? bone.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to the Teleostei - fish with bony skeletons. n. A fish of the taxonomic infraclass Teleostei.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei [syn: teleost fish , teleostan ]
Usage examples of teleost.
Early in the boring the sandstone had given place to a vein of Comanchian limestone, full of minute fossil cephalopods, corals, echini, and spirifera, and with occasional suggestions of siliceous sponges and marine vertebrate bones - the latter probably of teleosts, sharks, and ganoids.
Early in the boring the sandstone had given place to a vein of Comanchian limestone, full of minute fossil cephalopods, corals, echini, and spirifera, and with occasional suggestions of siliceous sponges and marine vertebrate bones--the latter probably of teleosts, sharks, and ganoids.
Several territorial teleosts greeted the swimming humans as associates, if not friends.
You're very good at understanding the ways of echinoderms and teleosts and alien water-dwellers, Mother, but not so good with little girls.
It was not that the birds drove out the flying reptiles, or that the teleosts and sharks drove out the ammonites and certain corals and swimming reptiles, or that the angiosperms drove out the gymnosperms, and certainly the mammals did not drive out the land reptiles.