GANOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ganoid mean? 

• GANOID (noun)
  The noun GANOID has 1 sense:

1. primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering

  Familiarity information: GANOID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GANOID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ganoid; ganoid fish

Hypernyms ("ganoid" is a kind of...):

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ganoid"):

Amia calva; bowfin; dogfish; grindle (primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America)

duckbill; paddlefish; Polyodon spathula (primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout)

Chinese paddlefish; Psephurus gladis (fish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish)

sturgeon (large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone)

billfish; gar; garfish; garpike; Lepisosteus osseus (primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth)

Holonyms ("ganoid" is a member of...):

Ganoidei; order Ganoidei (a group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales)

 Context examples 

In a few minutes the huge beast had been cut up and slabs of him were hanging over a dozen camp fires, together with great scaly ganoid fish which had been speared in the lake.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)