Batrachoid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Batrachoid is an adjective meaning (zoology, dated) Frog-like; batrachian.
Meaning
(zoology, dated) Frog-like; batrachian.
More Meanings
- (zoology) Of or pertaining to the family Batrachoididae of marine fishes, called toadfish.
- (zoology) Any species of the family Batrachoididae; a batrachoidid.
Example Sentences
Somatically batrachoids are in fact highly modified if basal euteleosts.
Regardless of the type of water in which they are found, batrachoids are primarily bottom fishes.
The batrachoids (toadfishes) are sedentary large species on mud or sand bottoms (Gill 1907, Gudger 1910) in which the male guards the large eggs (ca. 5 mm diameter in Opsanus tau).
It applies, indeed, solely in its present state to the capillaries of the saurial and batrachoid reptiles; but there is every reason to believe, that the same arrangement takes place in the mammated class of animals.
Word Forms
- batrachoids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include batrachian, batrachophagous, raniform, batfaced, amphisbaenoid, batrachomyomachian.
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