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Any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales sharks
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selachian
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates [syn: elasmobranch ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Selachian \Se*la"chi*an\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context zoology English) Pertaining the superorder Selachimorpha, division ''(taxlink Selachii division noshow=1)'', or similar grouping, including extant sharks, or its members. 2 (cx zoology English) elasmobranchiate. 3 Shark-like. n. (context zoology ...
Usage examples of selachian.
I saw the huge selachian catch a lizard in its jaws and literally divide him in half.
The sharks were far the most sensitive to no-time, followed by the other selachians, then amphibians, and then the land reptiles.
In our time-gap research, the sharks got hit hardest by no-time gaps, then the other selachians like the rays, then fish of all kinds, then the amphibi-KS, getting less and less affected as you worked toward the warm-blooded creatures like humans.