Ganoid Definition

gănoid
adjective
Of or having growing scales with a hard glossy surface of many layers of enamel, as in many extinct and some living fishes.
Webster's New World
Having ganoid scales.
American Heritage
noun
A fish having such scales, as the sturgeons, gars, and paddlefishes.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • ganoid fish

Other Word Forms of Ganoid

Noun

Singular:
ganoid
Plural:
ganoids

Origin of Ganoid

  • From New Latin Ganoideī former subclass name from Greek ganos brightness, gladness (in reference to the shiny scales of the fish included in the subclass) from ganusthai to rejoice gāu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ganoid Sentence Examples

  • It is almost made up of fragments of spines, teeth and scales of ganoid fish.

  • He has shown that, as in the Crossopterygian and Chondrostean ganoid fishes, there co., are two clavicular elements on each side; the lower corresponds to the clavicle of reptiles and higher vertebrates, whilst the upper corresponds to the clavicle of teleostean fishes, and has been named by him "cleithrum."

  • The extinct Stegocephalia, on the other hand, were mostly protected, on the ventral surface at least, by an armour of overlapping round, oval, or rhomboidal scales, often very similar to those of Crossopterygian or ganoid fishes, and likewise disposed in transverse oblique lines converging forwards on the middle line of the belly.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAN

Words Ending With

DIDOID

Unscrambles

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