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CHONDRICHTHIAN

Dictionary entry overview: What does chondrichthian mean?

• CHONDRICHTHIAN (noun)
The noun CHONDRICHTHIAN has 1 sense:

1. fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified

Familiarity information: CHONDRICHTHIAN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CHONDRICHTHIAN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cartilaginous fish; chondrichthian

Hypernyms ("chondrichthian" 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 "chondrichthian"):

holocephalan (fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail)

elasmobranch; selachian (any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates)

Holonyms ("chondrichthian" is a member of...):

Chondrichthyes; class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)

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