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Ganoid   Listen
adjective
Ganoid  adj.  (Zool.) Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. n. One of the Ganoidei.
Ganoid scale (Zool.), one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.






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... part of these bore impressions of primitive organisms. Creation had evidently advanced since the day before. Instead of rudimentary trilobites, I noticed remains of a more perfect order of beings, amongst others ganoid fishes and some of those sauroids in which palaeontologists have discovered the earliest reptile forms. The Devonian seas were peopled by animals of these species, and deposited them by thousands in the rocks of the ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne



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