Meaning of batrachoid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Frog-like; batrachian.
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2. Of or pertaining to the family Batrachoididae of marine fishes, called toadfish.

Examples

“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.”

“An idea, not undeserving attention, has been announced on this subject by M. Reynaud, who, observing that a similar anatomical arrangement is found in the batrachoid amphibia, or frog family during the whole period of existence, infers, though not very confidently, that it may be applied to explain⟳ the arrangement of the vascular system now under consideration, by referring it to the earliest periods of intra-uterine life in the Mammalia.”

“It gave, therefore, additional evidence of the existence of air-breathing vertebrata at the period of the deposition of the coal-strata, and extended the known geographical range of the batrachoid reptiles of the carboniferous epoch.”

“There is no doubt⟳ but that the Batrachoid fishes deserve⟳ at least the rank given them by Dr. Gill, coördinate with the Trachinoidea, the Gobiodea, or the Blennioidea (as arranged by Gill , for I do not accept⟳ Mr. Regan's inclusion of the Ophidioidea and Zoarceoidea in that group).”

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