Xenopterygii

Xenopterygii

Xe*nop`te*ryg"i*i\, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. xe`nos strange + ?, dim. of ? a wing.] (Zo["o]l.) A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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