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from The Century Dictionary.
- In J. Müller's classification, an order of teleost fishes, having the inferior pharyngeals ankylosed and the pneumatic duct closed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.
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