polypteroid

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noun

Any fish of the family Polypteridae.

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Meanings

nounpolypteroid (plural polypteroids)

plural polypteroids

  1. Any fish of the family Polypteridae.

    But this seems an unnatural arrangement; although the polypteroids and acipenserids are similar in that the number of fin rays is greater than the number of their basal skeletal supports and because there is an unmistakable spiral valve in the intestine […]

    2018, Henry B. Bigelow, Soft-rayed Bony Fishes: Orders Acipenseroidei, Lepisostei, and Isospondyli
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APA

polypteroid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polypteroid

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