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Webster 1913 Edition


Nematognathi


Nemˊa-tog′na-thi

,
Noun.
pl.
[NL. See
nemato-
, and
Gnathic
.]
(Zool.)
An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See
Siluroid
.