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bony fish
noun
- any fish of the class Osteichthyes, characterized by gill covers, an air bladder, and a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage.
bony fish
noun
- any fish of the class Osteichthyes , including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
bony fish
/ bō′nē /
- Any of numerous ray-finned fishes belonging to the infraclass Teleostei or Teleostomi, having a skeleton that is completely made of bone, rather than partially or completely made of cartilage. Most living species of fish are bony fish.
- Also called teleost
- Compare cartilaginous fish
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Example Sentences
The oarfish is the largest living bony fish, reaching up to 35 feet in length.
A pair of giant, bony fish—one 18 feet long—have washed up on California beaches this week.
In the Amphibian skull there are as a rule far fewer bones than in the skull of bony fish.
The fishermen of Key West usually know the lady-fish as bone-fish, and the ten-pounder as bony-fish.
He went down to the sea-shore and he came upon a pool filled with thin bony fish called skates.
In the embryo of the bony fish a similar notochord precedes the segmentation and ossification of the vertebral column.
But it is not evident that a bony fish possesses a real scapula, coracoid, or even clavicle.
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