ganoid fish

1. 1.

   primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering

   Synonymsganoid

   Broaderteleost fish

   NarrowerbowfinpaddlefishChinese paddlefishsturgeongar

   Part ofGanoidei

Questions about ganoid fish

What does ganoid fish mean?

ganoid fish means "primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering".

What is another word for ganoid fish?

Close synonyms include ganoid. 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 ganoid fish a common word?

ganoid fish 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.