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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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