BONY FISH
Dictionary entry overview: What does bony fish mean?
• BONY FISH (noun)
The noun BONY FISH has 1 sense:
1. any fish of the class Osteichthyes
Familiarity information: BONY FISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BONY FISH (noun)
Meaning:
Any fish of the class Osteichthyes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("bony fish" is a kind of...):
fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bony fish"):
crossopterygian; lobe-finned fish; lobefin (any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form)
lungfish (air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought)
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Holonyms ("bony fish" is a member of...):
class Osteichthyes; Osteichthyes (a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage)
