class osteichthyes

1. 1.

   a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage

   SynonymsOsteichthyes

   Broaderclass

   Part ofVertebrata

Questions about class osteichthyes

What does class osteichthyes mean?

class osteichthyes means "a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage".

What is another word for class osteichthyes?

Close synonyms include Osteichthyes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is class osteichthyes a common word?

class osteichthyes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.