Word Meanings - PLACOGANOIDEI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.

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• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• SKELETON
  The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Note: The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective-
• EXTERNAL
  Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• EXTERNALLY
  In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• EXTERNALITY
  State of being external; exteriority;
• EXTERNALIZE
  To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• GANOIDAL
  Ganoid.
• GANOIDIAN
  Ganoid.
• LARGE
  Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. Diffusely; fully;
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• SKELETONIZER
  Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• INTERCARTILAGINOUS
  Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• RHOMBOGANOIDEI
  See GINGLYMODI
• CHONDROGANOIDEA
  An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
• DERMOSKELETON
  See EXOSKELETON
• PLACOGANOIDEI
  A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
• CYCLOGANOIDEI
  An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin is a living example.