Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A remarkable living ganoid fish, Polypterus bichir, of the family Polypteridæ and order Crossopterygii, inhabiting the Nile and other African rivers, attaining a length of 18 inches, and esteemed as food. See Polypterus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See brachioganoidei.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A group of ray-finned fish of the family Polypteridae in the order Polypteriformes

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Examples

  • At this very moment our freezer contains, in addition to food for us and frozen rodents for pet snakes, a painted turtle, a star nosed mole, a Senegal bichir, his pet rat "Pam" (who he's saving until his pine snake is big enough to eat her), porcupine feet, and probably many other things I have not found yet.

    A Freezer Full of Mystery 2009

  • At this very moment our freezer contains, in addition to food for us and frozen rodents for pet snakes, a painted turtle, a star nosed mole, a Senegal bichir, his pet rat "Pam" (who he's saving until his pine snake is big enough to eat her), porcupine feet, and probably many other things I have not found yet.

    A Freezer Full of Mystery 2009

  • The MIT researcher is also looking at other marine molluscs, including sea urchins, chitons, and the Senegal bichir.

    Three-Layered Snail Shell Inspires Better Body Armor | Inhabitat 2010

  • Drag to Playlist hujeta/rocket/silver/characin gar, senegal bichir, acei cichlids in my planted tank my 55 gallon planted tank is home to a characin gar, senegal bichir, 16 acei cichlids, a few chinese algae eaters and a juvenile rainbow shark.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Polypterus senegalus a.k.a. Senegal bichir a.k.a. Gray bichir a.k.a. "dinosaur eel", a "living fossil" fish, for its potential applicability for developing more advanced military body armor, vehicle armor

    Defense Review 2009

  • (an African freshwater fish also known as the gray bichir) has "[i] ncredible fish armor [that] could suit soldiers."

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • A few modern fishes, including the coelacanth, the African bichir Polypterus, and three genera of lungfishes, retained lungs … In two major lineages of derived bony fishes - the chondrosteans and the teleosts -- lungs evolved to swim bladders by atrophy of vascular tissue to create a more or less empty sac and, in some cases, by loss of the connecting tube to the esophagus (called the trachea in humans and other creatures with lungs).

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A few modern fishes, including the coelacanth, the African bichir Polypterus, and three genera of lungfishes, retained lungs … In two major lineages of derived bony fishes - the chondrosteans and the teleosts -- lungs evolved to swim bladders by atrophy of vascular tissue to create a more or less empty sac and, in some cases, by loss of the connecting tube to the esophagus (called the trachea in humans and other creatures with lungs).

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • (an African freshwater fish also known as the gray bichir) has "[i] ncredible fish armor [that] could suit soldiers."

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • (an African freshwater fish also known as the gray bichir) has "[i] ncredible fish armor [that] could suit soldiers."

    Evolution News & Views 2009

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  • It's a fish.

    January 1, 2012