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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays; not spiny-finned. Used of bony fishes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In ichthyology, having no fin-spines; spineless; anacanthine; malacop-terous; malacopterygian. See Malacopterygii.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines; -- said of certain fishes.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to fish with soft fins

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. soft
  2. coregonidae
  3. cyprinodontidae
  4. clupeid
  5. soft-rayed
  1. argentinidae
  2. cyprinodont
  3. synodontidae
  4. salmonid
  5. cyprinid
  1. cyprinid fish
  2. cypriniform fish
  3. family argentinidae
  4. family chlorophthalmidae
  5. family coregonidae
  1. family cyprinodontidae
  2. family synodontidae
  3. handsaw fish
  4. isospondyli
  5. order isospondyli
  1. chlorophthalmidae
  2. clupeid fish
  3. gadoid
  4. gadoid fish
  5. subbrachiales
  1. gadidæ
  2. malacopterygian
  3. Malacopterygii
  4. spineless

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