BONY FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bony fish mean? 

• BONY FISH (noun)
  The noun BONY FISH has 1 sense:

1. any fish of the class Osteichthyes

  Familiarity information: BONY FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONY FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fish of the class Osteichthyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bony fish" is a kind of...):

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bony fish"):

crossopterygian; lobe-finned fish; lobefin (any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form)

lungfish (air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought)

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Holonyms ("bony fish" is a member of...):

class Osteichthyes; Osteichthyes (a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage)

 Context examples 

Sharks developed as an evolutionary offshoot from bony fish — non-armored species with skeletons made of bone, like modern fish.

(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)