cartilaginous fish

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

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Words nearby cartilaginous fish

cartilage matrix, cartilage of nasal septum, cartilage space, cartilaginoid, cartilaginous, cartilaginous fish, cartilaginous joint, Cartland, cartload, cart off, cartogram

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How to use cartilaginous fish in a sentence

When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.
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“The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.
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Kocurek documented the scene with notes and diagrams, and called the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer corroborated another account.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A Fish and Wildlife special agent collected the bodies of two birds at the site, a redhead duck and a mourning dove.
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He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
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He looked up from his fish and replied, somewhat cuttingly, "By contesting a borough and getting elected."
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.
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But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?
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The Taube has been bothering us again, but wound up its manœuvres very decently by killing some fish for our dinner.
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Scientific definitions for cartilaginous fish

cartilaginous fish

[ kär′tl-ăj′ə-nəs ]

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. Compare bony fish jawless fish.