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Definition of Pediculati
1. Noun. Anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Member holonyms: Family Ogcocephalidae, Ogcocephalidae, Family Lophiidae, Lophiidae, Batrachoididae, Family Batrachoididae, Antennariidae, Family Antennariidae
Group relationships: Acanthopterygii, Superorder Acanthopterygii
Definition of Pediculati
1. n. pl. An order of fishes including the anglers. See Illust. of Angler and Batfish.
Medical Definition of Pediculati
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pediculati
Literary usage of Pediculati
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1861)
"pediculati, pt., Cuc. fy Vol. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xii. p. 335. pediculati, Cm' .
Ri'gnc Anim. edit. 1817. Head and anterior part of the body very large, ..."
2. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"J CHAPTER XXXI ORDER pediculati: THE ANGLERS HE Angler-fishes.—The few remaining
fishes possess also jugular ventral fins, but in other regards they show so ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"PECTORALES pediculati, Of some acanthopterygii, whose carpal bones are elongated
so as to form a sort of arm, which supports their pectorals. ..."
4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Order pediculati: The Anglers The skin is smooth, with dermal flaps about the head.
Over the mouth, like a fishing-rod, hangs the first dorsal spine with a ..."
5. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"... and was doubtless intended for Paralichthys. The foregoing diagnosis is based
on specimens 5 inches long from the Beaufort region. Order pediculati. ..."
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