Ac`an*thop`ter*yg"i*i (#), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. thorn + fin, dim. fr. wing.] Zool.

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

 

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