TELEOSTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teleostan mean? 

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

1. a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEOSTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bony fish of the subclass Teleostei

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan

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

bony fish (any fish of the class Osteichthyes)

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

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

cornetfish (slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales)

needlefish; pipefish (fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates)

bellows fish; snipefish (small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth)

shrimp-fish; shrimpfish (slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates)

Aulostomus maculatus; trumpetfish (tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down)

billfish; gar; needlefish (elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters)

flying fish (tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight)

halfbeak (tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw)

billfish; saury; Scomberesox saurus (slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters)

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

sweeper (little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body)

ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

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

subclass Teleostei; Teleostei (large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species)