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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various fishes of the class Chondrichthyes, having a skeleton consisting mainly of cartilage rather than bone, and including the sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.
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- noun Members of
taxonomic class Chondrichthyes which haveskeletons made ofcartilage rather thanbone .
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- noun fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified
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