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Definition of Bony fish
1. Noun. Any fish of the class Osteichthyes.
Group relationships: Class Osteichthyes, Osteichthyes
Specialized synonyms: Crossopterygian, Lobe-finned Fish, Lobefin, Lungfish, Teleost, Teleost Fish, Teleostan
Definition of Bony fish
1. Noun. A fish of the taxonomic group Osteichthyes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bony Fish
Literary usage of Bony fish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"A bony fish —THE PERCH External Features. — The yellow perch, Perca flavescens (Fig.
368), inhabits the fresh-water streams and lakes of the north- FIG. ..."
2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Large fishes of the open seas, remarkable for the development of scaly sheaths.
Only a single species in our waters. Bony-fish ; Ten-pounder Elops ..."
3. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"The fishermen of Key West usually know the lady-fish as bone-fish, and the
ten-pounder as bony-fish. The best plan for anglers is to adopt the names ..."
4. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"The fishermen of Key West usually know the lady-fish as bone-fish, and the
ten-pounder as bony-fish. The best plan for anglers is to adopt the names ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"In the same way the name "bony-fish" has been naturalized at Montauk point and
Napeague, NY The factories in that neighborhood are owned by firms in Eastern ..."
6. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"Taking a bony fish (fig. 275) as in this respect a typical example of the class,
the following are the chief points in the osteology of a fish which require ..."
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