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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A suborder of fishes, resembling the Haplomi, but distinguished by peculiarities of the pectoral arch (whence the name). It consists of the family Dalliidæ alone. See cut under
Dallia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (
Dallia pectoralis ) is the type.
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