Word Meanings - HYOGANOIDEI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of ganoid fishes, including the gar pikes and bowfins. -- Hy`o*ga"noid, a.

Related words: (words related to HYOGANOIDEI)

• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• PIKESTAFF
  1. The staff, or shaft, of a pike. 2. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping. Sir W. Scott.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• GANOIDAL
  Ganoid.
• GANOIDIAN
  Ganoid.
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• GANOIDEI
  One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales. Note: They
• GANOID
  Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei. Ganoid scale , one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• RHOMBOGANOIDEI
  See GINGLYMODI
• CHONDROGANOIDEA
  An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
• PLACOGANOIDEI
  A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
• CYCLOGANOIDEI
  An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin is a living example.
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.
• PLACOGANOID
  Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.
• BRACHIOGANOIDEI
  An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.
• CYCLOGANOID
  Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei.
• LEPIDOGANOID
  Any one of a division of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively.