teleost fish

Questions about teleost fish

What does teleost fish mean?

teleost fish means "a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei".

What is another word for teleost fish?

Close synonyms include teleost, teleostan. 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 teleost fish a common word?

teleost 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.