cartilaginous fish
Any member of the taxonomic class Chondrichthyes, having a skeleton made of cartilage…Any member of the taxonomic class Chondrichthyes, having a skeleton made of cartilage rather than bone. They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or bony fishes.
Meaning
1 sensesAny member of the taxonomic class Chondrichthyes, having a skeleton made of cartilage rather than bone. They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or bony fishes.
Knorpelfisch
хрящева́я ры́баxrjaščevája rýba
- fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified
Examples
1 sentencesThe species eat squid, octopus, Pacific hake and other boney fishes, various cartilaginous fishes, and jawless fishes.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Forms
plural: cartilaginous fishes / cartilaginous fish| Singular | cartilaginous fish |
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| Plural | cartilaginous fishes / cartilaginous fish |
regular
Synonyms
2 synonyms- fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified:chondrichthian
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.