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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] a fish having cartilages instead of bones.]

(Zool.)

An order of elasmobranchs including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi. Called also

Selacha

Selache

, and

Selachoidei