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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the small bones forming the basal support of the pectoral fins of bony fishes, lying between the fin-rays and the hypo- and hypercoracoid; an actinost.
- Of or pertaining to a pterygium.
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- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the
pterygium
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