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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

(Zool.)

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.

, a [Gr. a thorn, and a little feather, from a feather.]

In zoology, having back fins which are hard, bony and pricky, a term applied to certain fishes.

acanthopterygious

having fins with hard rays