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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In Owen's system of classification, the lowest of five subclasses of the class Pisces, characterized by a vermiform limbless body, a notochordal membrano-cartilaginous endoskeleton, and no skull, or a skull with no lower jaw.

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

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) Same as dermopterygii.

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