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BONY FISH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any fish of the class Osteichthyes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bony fish" 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 "bony fish"):
crossopterygian; lobe-finned fish; lobefin (any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form)
lungfish (air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought)
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Holonyms ("bony fish" 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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