teleost
adjective
belonging or pertaining to the Teleostei, a group of bony fishes including most living species.
teleostean
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a variation of
teleost.
Example Sentences
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Eel-bucks on the Thames Eel, the popular name of fishes belonging to the teleostean sub-order Apodes.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
Lately, Professor Pictet has carried their existence one sub-stage further back; and some palaeontologists believe that certain much older fishes, of which the affinities are as yet imperfectly known, are really teleostean.
From On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
Some few families of fish now have a confined range; the teleostean fishes might formerly have had a similarly confined range, and after having been largely developed in some one sea, have spread widely.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
But certain Jurassic and Triassic forms are now commonly admitted to be teleostean; and even some palæozoic forms have been thus classed by one high authority.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by George John Romanes
A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny finÐrays, as the cod.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
