(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:39:32

Os*tra"ci*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. small shell.] Zool.

A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes.

 

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