A fish of a class distinguished by having a skeleton of cartilage rather than bone, including the sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
软骨鱼。比较BONY FISH
Class Chondrichthyes: subclasses Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) and Hoplocephali (chimaeras)
Compare with bony fish
Example sentencesExamples
More recent research demonstrated that none of the five invertebrates tested, nor the one cartilaginous fish had these receptors.
An unorthodox scenario placing cartilaginous fish within bony fish has been suggested but has received no additional support.
First appearing on Earth almost 450 million years ago, cartilaginous fish today include both fearsome predators and harmless mollusc-eaters (harmless, that is, unless you are a mollusc).
By the late Devonian, 360 million years ago, early cartilaginous fish and bony fish were diversifying.
Definition of cartilaginous fish in US English:
cartilaginous fish
noun
A fish of a class distinguished by having a skeleton of cartilage rather than bone, including the sharks, rays, and chimeras.
软骨鱼。比较BONY FISH
Class Chondrichthyes: subclasses Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) and Hoplocephali (chimeras)
Compare with bony fish
Example sentencesExamples
By the late Devonian, 360 million years ago, early cartilaginous fish and bony fish were diversifying.
First appearing on Earth almost 450 million years ago, cartilaginous fish today include both fearsome predators and harmless mollusc-eaters (harmless, that is, unless you are a mollusc).
More recent research demonstrated that none of the five invertebrates tested, nor the one cartilaginous fish had these receptors.
An unorthodox scenario placing cartilaginous fish within bony fish has been suggested but has received no additional support.