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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various fishes in the group Osteichthyes, having a bony rather than cartilaginous skeleton and including the lobe-finned fishes and the ray-finned fishes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A local (Connecticut) name of the menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus.
- noun A common name of the ten-pounder, Elops saurus, of the family Elopidæ, an abundant and widely distributed fish in tropical seas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A fish of the
taxonomic groupOsteichthyes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any fish of the class Osteichthyes
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