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ctenosquamate

ctenosquamate adjective: of or from the section Ctenosquamata of bony fish.

Adjective

ctenosquamate (not comparable)

  1. Of or from the section Ctenosquamata of bony fish.
    • Several other characteristics, mostly associated with improved locomotion and feeding, also mark the ascendancy of teleosts above the ctenosquamate level of development.2009, Gene Helfman, The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology

Noun

ctenosquamate (plural ctenosquamates)

  1. A fish of this section.

Forms of ctenosquamate

pluralctenosquamates

Questions about ctenosquamate

What does ctenosquamate mean?
Ctenosquamate means of or from the section Ctenosquamata of bony fish.
What part of speech is ctenosquamate?
Ctenosquamate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ctenosquamate in the dictionary

  1. ctenopomas
  2. ctenosaur
  3. ctenosauriscid
  4. ctenosauriscids
  5. ctenosaurs
  6. ctenosquamate
  7. ctenosquamates
  8. ctenostomatid
  9. ctenostomatids
  10. ctenostomatous
  11. ctenostome

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