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from The Century Dictionary.
- A subclass or class of true fishes, having the arch of the upper jaw formed by specialized jaw-bones (generally both intermaxillary and supramaxillary) and a more or less developed set of membranebones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids.
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