CARTILAGINOUS FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cartilaginous fish mean? 

• CARTILAGINOUS FISH (noun)
  The noun CARTILAGINOUS FISH has 1 sense:

1. fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified

  Familiarity information: CARTILAGINOUS FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARTILAGINOUS FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cartilaginous fish; chondrichthian

Hypernyms ("cartilaginous fish" is a kind of...):

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)

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

holocephalan; holocephalian (fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail)

elasmobranch; selachian (any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates)

Holonyms ("cartilaginous fish" is a member of...):

Chondrichthyes; class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)

 Context examples 

Any jawed or jawless organisms in the phylum Chordata including the jawless fish, armored fish, cartilaginous fish, ray-finned fish and lobe-finned fish.

(FISH, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)