ganoid
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the Ganoidei, a group of mostly extinct fishes characterized by hard, bony scales, the living species of which include the paddlefishes, sturgeons, and gars.
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(of the scale of a fish) having a smooth, shiny surface of ganoin or a similar substance.
noun
adjective
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(of the scales of certain fishes) consisting of an inner bony layer and an outer layer of an enamel-like substance (ganoin)
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denoting fishes, including the sturgeon and bowfin, having such scales
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Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of ganoid
1830–40; < French ganoïde < Greek gán ( os ) brightness + -oïde -oid
Example Sentences
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It was a ganoid fish, like a sturgeon.
From Long Ago, Far Away by Murray Leinster
In the Triassic and Jurassic, little progress was made among the fishes, and the ganoid was still the leading type.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
E. of Cupar, have been found great quantities of fossils of ganoid fishes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
The only modification which it occurs to me to suggest in this general view of the Phylogeny of the Vertebrata is, that the "Protamphirhine" was possibly more ganoid than shark-like.
From Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley
An order of ganoid fishes of which Amis is type.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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