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from The Century Dictionary.
- A suborder of ganoid fishes, represented by the Polypteridæ and some related families.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A suborder of existing ganoid fishes having numerous fins along the back. The bichir, or Polypterus, is the type. See
Illust. undercrossopterygian .
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