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"Acanthopterygian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of scientific precision, and the use of a dead language saves your nomenclature from being confounded with your common talk. The use of a Greek derivative gives notice that you are scientific. If you speak of an acanthopterygian, it is plain that you are not discussing perch in reference to its roasting or boiling merits; and if you make an allusion to monomyarian malacology, it will not naturally be supposed to have reference to the cooking of ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton |
Words linked to "Acanthopterygian" : dragonet, superorder Acanthopterygii, silversides, suckerfish, angler fish, toadfish, plectognath, barracuda, soft-finned fish, sucking fish, allmouth, teleostan, prickleback, sand lance, launce, sargassum fish, flatfish, stickleback, silverside, frogfish, plectognath fish, Opsanus tau, flashlight fish, scorpaenoid, goosefish, boarfish, Acanthopterygii, dory, percoid, lotte, scorpaenoid fish, squirrelfish, batfish, anomalops, teleost fish, remora, anglerfish, sand eel, percoidean, Capros aper, sand launce, monkfish, Photoblepharon palpebratus, Lophius Americanus, teleost, angler, percoid fish |
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