Definitions for teleosts

teleosts tel·e·ost

Spelling: [tel-ee-ost, tee-lee-]
IPA: /ˈtɛl iˌɒst, ˈti li-/

Teleosts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in teleosts (eelosstt).

Definitions for teleosts

noun

  1. Also called teleostome [tel-ee-uh-stohm, tee-lee-] /ˈtɛl i əˌstoʊm, ˈti li-/ (Show IPA). a teleost fish.

adjective

  1. belonging or pertaining to the Teleostei, a group of bony fishes including most living species.

Origin of teleosts

1860-65; New Latin Teleostei infraclass name (designating fish with completely ossified skeletons), plural of teleosteus, equivalent to Greek tele- tele-2

Examples for teleosts

In the sea, whales, sharks, and teleost fishes of modern types rule in the stead of huge swimming reptiles.

It is seen that the two upper arches on each side are obliterated, as indeed they already are in some teleost fishes.

This condition depends upon the relatively much shorter extent of the teleost endgut compared with the human large intestine.

Fig. 311 shows the entire intestinal tract of a teleost fish, Echelus conger, the conger eel.

As a rule, the egg of a teleost is small, perfectly spherical, and enclosed in delicate but greatly distended membranes.

The teleost is adapted to its mode of life, and to that end it is specialized in fin and skeleton rather than in brain and nerves.

Such for example is the case in some teleost fishes, as the pickerel (Fig. 48).

Therefore it was thought that the teleost series could not have had a common origin with the series of sharks.

Word Value for teleosts
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