Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of fishes, constituted for some remarkable Paleozoic forms of doubtful relationships.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Paleon.) An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See
Illust. underpterichthys , andcoccosteus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws
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