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单词 osteichthyan
释义

osteichthyan

noun

os·​te·​ich·​thy·​an ˌä-stē-ˈik-thē-ən How to pronounce osteichthyan (audio)
variants or less commonly osteichthian
plural osteichthyans also osteichthians
: a fish of the class Osteichthyes : a bony fish
Extant jawed vertebrates, or gnathostomes, fall into two major monophyletic groups, namely chondrichthyans (cartilaginous fishes) and osteichthyans (bony fishes and tetrapods). Hector Botella et al., Nature, 2 Aug. 2007
osteichthyan adjective
or less commonly osteichthian
osteichthyan fishes

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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