subclass crossopterygii

1. 1.

   fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians

   SynonymsCrossopterygii

   Broaderclass

   Part ofOsteichthyes

Questions about subclass crossopterygii

What does subclass crossopterygii mean?

subclass crossopterygii means "fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians".

What is another word for subclass crossopterygii?

Close synonyms include Crossopterygii. 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 subclass crossopterygii a common word?

subclass crossopterygii 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.