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acanthopterygian

NOUN
  1. a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays

How To Use acanthopterygian In A Sentence

  • The acanthopterygian family (_Labyrinthici_) contains nine freshwater genera, and these are distributed between the East Indies and South and On the Genesis of Species
  • If you speak of an acanthopterygian, it is plain that you are not discussing perch in reference to its roasting or boiling merits; and if you make an allusion to monomyarian malacology, it will not naturally be supposed to have reference to the cooking of oyster sauce. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
  • If you speak of an acanthopterygian, it is plain that you are not discussing perch in reference to its roasting or boiling merits; and if you make an allusion to monomyarian malacology, it will not naturally be supposed to have reference to the cooking of oyster sauce. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
  • Ay, there must be something strangely entrancing in dragging the shoal waters with a hand-line, for unsuspicious, easily duped members of the acanthopterygian tribe of fishes, -- under which alarming denomination come, I believe, nearly all the finny fellows to be met with on these sand-banks, from the bluefish to the burgall. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
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