Word Meanings - POLYPTERUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An African genus of ganoid fishes including the bichir.
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- AFRICAN
Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant . -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished - AFRICANISM
A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton. - AFRICANIZE
To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett. - INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them. - AFRICANDER
One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers. - GENUS
A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms. - GANOIDAL
Ganoid. - GANOIDIAN
Ganoid. - BICHIR
A remarkable ganoid fish found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei. - 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. - SUBGENUS
A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron. - RHOMBOGANOIDEI
See GINGLYMODI - EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent. - 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. - 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. - HYOGANOIDEI
A division of ganoid fishes, including the gar pikes and bowfins. -- Hy`o*ga"noid, a.