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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having fins supported by flexible segmented rays; not spiny-finned. Used of bony fishes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ichthyology, having no fin-spines; spineless; anacanthine; malacop-terous; malacopterygian. See
Malacopterygii .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines; -- said of certain fishes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to fish with soft fins
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He placed the sturgeon in his Cartilaginous series; while in his soft-finned order he found a place for the Polypterus of the Nile and the Lepidosteus of the
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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