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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of ganoid fishes which have the skeleton osseous instead of cartilaginous: distinguished from Chondrostei.

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

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.

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