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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Etymology
Origin of ganoid
1830–40; < French ganoïde < Greek gán ( os ) brightness + -oïde -oid
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But it was not a sturgeon, though sturgeons are now the main representatives of what once were innumerable ganoid species.
From Long Ago, Far Away by Murray Leinster
Another American ganoid is Amia calva, the dog-fish or bow-fin, which is very numerous in Western rivers.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
The form of the "pectoral fins" was quite unique—these having the shape of two long, curved spines, somewhat like wings, covered by finely-tuberculated ganoid plates.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson
But on Earth we have weather, and it happened a long, long time ago, back in the days of three-toed horses and ganoid fish.
From Long Ago, Far Away by Murray Leinster
In the embryo of the cod or perch the backbone has, at an early stage, the same position as in the shark or ganoid; only at a later stage does it attain its definite position.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
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