CARTILAGINOUS • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Cartilaginous

"Cartilaginous" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sandstone of Russia, as well as that of Scotland, attained the length of between twenty and thirty feet. It was clothed with strong bony armour, embossed with star-like tubercles, but it had only a cartilaginous skeleton. The mouth was furnished with two rows of teeth, the outer ones small and fish-like, the inner larger and with a reptilian character. The Asterolepis occurs also in the Devonian rocks of ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... the present creation has given him the key to past creations, how the complete skeleton of the living fishes has explained the scattered fragments of the ancient ones, especially those of which the soft cartilaginous structure was liable to decay, he presents two modes of studying the type as a whole; either in its comparative anatomy, including in the comparison the whole history of the type, fossil and living, or in its comparative embryology. "The results," he adds, "of these two ...

— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz

... large tribe of cartilaginous fishes in which, although the skeleton is not osseous, the development of organs is so advanced that they would appear to be the highest of the class, approaching nearest to amphibians. They are easily distinguished from the sharks by their broad and flat body, the pectoral ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

Words linked to "Cartilaginous" : gristly, cartilaginous structure, cartilage, rubbery, tough