etheostomoid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Etheostoma +‎ -oid

Adjective[edit]

etheostomoid (comparative more etheostomoid, superlative most etheostomoid)

  1. (zoology) Resembling or relating to the genus Etheostoma of fishes allied to the perch.

Noun[edit]

etheostomoid (plural etheostomoids)

  1. (zoology) Any of the fish of Etheostoma and related genera.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for etheostomoid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)