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

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

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

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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