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Ctenoid   Listen
adjective
Ctenoid  adj.  (Zool.)
(a)
Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale.
(b)
Pertaining to the Ctenoidei.



noun
Ctenoid  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A ctenoidean.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ctenoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... imperfect. I tried to follow Agassiz's scheme of division into the order of ctenoids and ganoids, with the result that I found one of my species of side-swimmers had cycloid scales on one side and ctenoid on the other. This not only shocked my sense of the value of classification in a way that permitted of no full recovery of my original respect for the process, but for a time shook my confidence in ...
— Louis Agassiz as a Teacher • Lane Cooper



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