Crossword-Solution: ACANTHOPTERYGIAN 16 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 27

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Acanthopterygian a. Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose
fins, as the perch.
Acanthopterygian n. A spiny-finned fish.

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FISH with hard spiny rays in dorsal and anal fins 1 answer
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The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
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CERNAO
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The acanthopterygian family (_Labyrinthici_) contains nine freshwater genera, and these are distributed between the East Indies and South and Central Africa.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart 2007
DORY, or JOHN DORY (_Zeus faber_), an Acanthopterygian fish, the type of the family _Zeidae_, held in such esteem by the ancient Greeks that they called it _Zeus_ after their principal divinity.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 Various 2010
ARCHER-FISH, a name given to the _Tox[)o]tes jacul[=a]tor_, a scaly-finned, acanthopterygian fish, about 6 inches long, inhabiting the seas around Java, which has the faculty of shooting drops of water to the distance of 3 or 4 feet at insects, thereby causing them to fall into the water, when it seizes and devours them.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Various 2010