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Webster 1913 Edition


Pharyngognathi


Pharˊyn-gog′na-thi

,
Noun.
pl.
[NL. See
Pharynx
, and
Gnathic
.]
(Zool.)
A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.