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Definition of Plectognathi
1. Noun. Boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Acanthopterygii, Superorder Acanthopterygii
Member holonyms: Plectognath, Plectognath Fish, Balistidae, Family Balistidae, Family Monocanthidae, Monocanthidae, Family Ostraciidae, Family Ostraciontidae, Ostraciidae, Family Tetraodontidae, Tetraodontidae, Diodontidae, Family Diodontidae, Family Molidae, Molidae
Definition of Plectognathi
1. n. pl. An order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary.
Medical Definition of Plectognathi
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Plectognathi
Literary usage of Plectognathi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"CHAPTER XXIV SERIES plectognathi HE ... forming together the series or suborder
of plectognathi. ... The plectognathi (nAe/cró?, woven together; ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"CHAPTER XXXIX SERIES plectognathi HE ... forming together the series or suborder
of plectognathi. As the members of this group differ from one another more ..."
3. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1882)
"ANALYSIS OF FAMILIES OF plectognathi. a. Jaws with distinct teeth. b. Ventral fins
obsolete. c. Teeth narrow; body with an immovable carapace of hexagonal ..."
4. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johann Justus Rein (1884)
"... best-known representatives of this peculiar unimportant group of sea dwellers,
occur in Japanese waters in some six species. VI. ORDER. plectognathi. ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"plectognathi. We have now passed from the preceding five orders of bony or fibrous
fishes, with free and complete jaws, to the sixth, ..."
6. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"CHAPTER XXIV SERIES plectognathi HE ... forming together the series or suborder
of plectognathi. ... The plectognathi (nAe/cró?, woven together; ..."
7. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"CHAPTER XXXIX SERIES plectognathi HE ... forming together the series or suborder
of plectognathi. As the members of this group differ from one another more ..."
8. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1882)
"ANALYSIS OF FAMILIES OF plectognathi. a. Jaws with distinct teeth. b. Ventral fins
obsolete. c. Teeth narrow; body with an immovable carapace of hexagonal ..."
9. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johann Justus Rein (1884)
"... best-known representatives of this peculiar unimportant group of sea dwellers,
occur in Japanese waters in some six species. VI. ORDER. plectognathi. ..."
10. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"plectognathi. We have now passed from the preceding five orders of bony or fibrous
fishes, with free and complete jaws, to the sixth, ..."
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