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spiny-finned fish

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

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  • Among the spiny-finned fishes, the Sticklebacks are the prettiest, but so savage that they often occasion much mischief. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
  • The next two cases include the remaining specimens of the spiny-finned fish. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
  • Cuvier, with not a few of the ichthyologists who preceded him, arranged the fishes into two distinct series, -- the Cartilaginous and Osseous; and these last he mainly divided into the hard or spiny-finned fishes, and the soft or joint-finned fishes. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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