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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ichthyology:
- noun One of the hooked dermal spines of the cephalic armature of certain fossil fishes, as of the genera Hybodus and Acrodus.
- noun A lapsed genus of fishes, founded on sphenonchi by Agassiz in 1843.
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