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Definition of Acanthopterygian
1. Noun. A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays.
Specialized synonyms: Squirrelfish, Anomalops, Flashlight Fish, Flashlight Fish, Photoblepharon Palpebratus, Dory, Boarfish, Capros Aper, Boarfish, Prickleback, Stickleback, Batfish, Allmouth, Angler, Angler Fish, Anglerfish, Goosefish, Lophius Americanus, Lotte, Monkfish, Opsanus Tau, Toadfish, Frogfish, Sargassum Fish, Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean, Remora, Suckerfish, Sucking Fish, Silverside, Silversides, Barracuda, Launce, Sand Eel, Sand Lance, Sand Launce, Dragonet, Scorpaenoid, Scorpaenoid Fish, Plectognath, Plectognath Fish, Flatfish
Generic synonyms: Teleost, Teleost Fish, Teleostan
Group relationships: Acanthopterygii, Superorder Acanthopterygii
Antonyms: Soft-finned Fish
Definition of Acanthopterygian
1. a. Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.
Definition of Acanthopterygian
1. Noun. (context: zoology) Any fish of the superorder Acanthopterygii ¹
2. Adjective. (context: zoology) Similar to a acanthopterygian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Acanthopterygian
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acanthopterygian
Literary usage of Acanthopterygian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... specialization in a direction toward the acanthopterygian type had supervened.
To call such bones scapula and coracoid is to inculcate a most misleading ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"... Catalogue of the acanthopterygian Fishes, &c., vol. ii. p. 342. ... Trichiurus
Günther, Catalogue of the acanthopterygian Fishes, &c., vol. ii. p. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1837)
"... the remaining species of that genus inhabit the tropical, Pacific, and Indian
oceans. The preceding acanthopterygian families, with the addition of the ..."
4. On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart (1871)
"9 See his Catalogue of acanthopterygian Fishes in the British Museum, vol. iii., p.
540. 3 Proc. Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 102, and Ann. Mag. of Nat. Hist. ..."
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