noun
fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified
• Syn: ↑cartilaginous fish
• Hypernyms: ↑fish
• Hyponyms: ↑holocephalan, ↑holocephalian, ↑elasmobranch, ↑selachian
• Member Holonyms: ↑Chondrichthyes, ↑class Chondrichthyes
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\\känˈdrikthēən\ noun (-s)Etymology: New Latin Chondrichthyes + English -ian
: a member of the class Chondrichthyes : an elasmobranch fish
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/kon drik"thee euhn/, n.
any member of the class Chondrichthyes, comprising the cartilaginous fishes.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.