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SUBCLASS CROSSOPTERYGII

Dictionary entry overview: What does subclass Crossopterygii mean?

• SUBCLASS CROSSOPTERYGII (noun)
The noun SUBCLASS CROSSOPTERYGII has 1 sense:

1. fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians

Familiarity information: SUBCLASS CROSSOPTERYGII used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SUBCLASS CROSSOPTERYGII (noun)

Sense 1

subclass Crossopterygii ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Crossopterygii; subclass Crossopterygii

Hypernyms ("subclass Crossopterygii" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "subclass Crossopterygii"):

crossopterygian; lobe-finned fish; lobefin (any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form)

family Latimeridae; Latimeridae (extinct except for the coelacanth)

Holonyms ("subclass Crossopterygii" is a member of...):

class Osteichthyes; Osteichthyes (a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage)

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