Definition of Fishes. Meaning of Fishes. Synonyms of Fishes

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Definition of Fishes

Fishes
Finch Finch, n.; pl. Fishes. [AS. finc; akin to D. vink, OHG. fincho, G. fink; cf. W. pinc a finch; also E. spink.] (Zo["o]l.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillid[ae]. Note: The word is often used in composition, as in chaffinch, goldfinch, grassfinch, pinefinch, etc. Bramble finch. See Brambling. Canary finch, the canary bird. Copper finch. See Chaffinch. Diamond finch. See under Diamond. Finch falcon (Zo["o]l.), one of several very small East Indian falcons of the genus Hierax. To pull a finch, to swindle an ignorant or unsuspecting person. [Obs.] ``Privily a finch eke could he pull.' --Chaucer.

Meaning of Fishes from wikipedia

- fishes, and early sharks, earning the Devonian the epithet "the age of fishes". Fishes are a paraphyletic group, since any clade containing all fish,...
- modified bony fishes, and so we are comfortable with using the taxon Osteichthyes as a clade, which now includes all tetrapods... Fishes of the World (5th...
- evolutionary relationships. List of cartilaginous fish Cartilaginous versus bony fishes Largest cartilaginous fishes Threatened rays Threatened sharks Placodermi...
- bony fish, demonstrating that the absence of a bony skeleton in Chondrichthyes is a derived trait. The fossil findings of primitive bony fishes such as...
- Evolution of Parental Care in Fishes, with reference to Darwin's rule of male ****ual selection". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 6 (2): 223–251. Bibcode:1981EnvBF...
- cartilaginous fishes (see below), which have skeletons made mainly of cartilage (except for their teeth, fin spines, and denticles). Bony fishes are divided...
- Late Devonian extinctions, cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes) and the Actinopterygii among the bony fishes (Osteichthyes) diversified. The sections...
- and Brauner, C.J. (2011) Fish Physiology: Primitive Fishes Academic Press. ISBN 9780080549521. Maisey, J.G. (1996) Fossil Fishes Holt. ISBN 9780805043662...
- smaller fishes coming in close and larger fishes observing from a greater distance. Marine turtles, functioning as a mobile shelter for small fish, can be...
- and conservation of fishes. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4398-9759-1. OCLC 1032266421. Investigating Diadromy in Fishes and Its Loss in an -Omics...