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soft-finned
[ sawft-find, soft- ]
adjective
, Ichthyology.
- having fins supported by articulated rays rather than by spines, as a malacopterygian.
soft-finned
adjective
- (of certain teleost fishes) having fins that are supported by flexible cartilaginous rays See also malacopterygian Compare spiny-finned
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Word History and Origins
Origin of soft-finned1
First recorded in 1765–75
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Example Sentences
Having no spines to their fins, the Gadids used, in Cuvierian days, to be associated with the herrings, Salmonids, pike, &c., in the artificially-conceived order of Malacopterygians, or soft-finned bony fishes.
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He placed the sturgeon in his Cartilaginous series; while in his soft-finned order he found a place for the Polypterus of the Nile and the Lepidosteus of the Ohio and St. Lawrence.
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