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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A superfamily of mailcheeked fishes, with the hypercoracoid and hypocoracoid bones normally developed, a complete myodome, and post-temporals normally articulated with the cranium, comprising the families Scorpænidæ, Synanceidæ, Hexagrammidæ, and Anoplopomidæ.

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