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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of selachians to which different values have been given.

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

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimæras; -- called also Holocephala. See chimæra; also Illustration in Appendix.

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  • noun chimaeras and extinct forms

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