cartilaginous fish

American  

[kahr-tuhl-aj-uh-nuhs fish] / ˌkɑr təlˈædʒ ə nəs ˈfɪʃ /

noun

1. Zoology. any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, characterized by having jaws and a skeleton of cartilage rather than bone, the members of which include the sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.

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cartilaginous fish British  

noun

1. any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, including the sharks, skates, and rays, having a skeleton composed entirely of cartilage

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cartilaginous fish Scientific  

/ kär′tl-ăj′ə-nəs /

1. Any of various fishes of the class Selachii (or Chondrichthyes), having a skeleton that is made of cartilage. Cartilaginous fishes breathe through gill slits, of which there are usually five, and their toothlike or platelike scales (called denticles) are made of dentine and enamel. Sharks, rays, skates, sawfish, and chimaeras are cartilaginous fishes.

2. Compare bony fish jawless fish

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Example Sentences

Twelve out of seventeen cartilaginous fish genomes studied contained genes for the taste receptors type 2, with only one T2R gene present in each species.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

Yet sharks and other cartilaginous fish do have smell receptors closely related to bitter taste receptors.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 12, 2023

Although no bony fish has ever come close to reaching the size of a whale shark, the largest cartilaginous fish, the size of the sunfish found in the Azores is impressive.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2022

Rays are close evolutionary relatives of sharks, sharing the taxonomical subclass Elasmobranchii, a group of cartilaginous fish that can be traced back hundreds of millions of years.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2022

"As for cartilaginous fish," Conseil went on unflappably, "they consist of only three orders."

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.