Word Meanings - POLYPTERUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An African genus of ganoid fishes including the bichir.

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• AFRICAN
  Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant . -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• AFRICANIZE
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• AFRICANDER
  One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• GANOIDAL
  Ganoid.
• GANOIDIAN
  Ganoid.
• BICHIR
  A remarkable ganoid fish found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.
• GANOIDEI
  One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales. Note: They
• GANOID
  Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei. Ganoid scale , one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• RHOMBOGANOIDEI
  See GINGLYMODI
• EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.
• CHONDROGANOIDEA
  An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
• 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.
• PLACOGANOID
  Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.
• BRACHIOGANOIDEI
  An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.
• CYCLOGANOID
  Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei.
• LEPIDOGANOID
  Any one of a division of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively.