"skeleton" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Bony fish - fish that have a bony skeleton and belong to the class osteichthyes.
- With them came two injured strangers and a wild, bony skeleton of a male in tattered, grubby furs.
- "There isn't enough calcium in the ecosystem to allow for full bony skeletons," Eviku explained to her in his slow, thoughtful voice.
- Shad has an extremely bony skeleton, with extra rows of bones that are difficult to remove.
- Palaeoniscidae is a family of fish who possessed a bony skeleton and operculum.
- Not all of those showcased are the same: Vertebrates have bony internal skeletons known as endoskeletons (inside the body).
- Bony fishes, class Osteichthyes, are characterised by bony skeleton rather than cartilage.
- They have replaced a bony skeleton with one of cartilage and possess a few large bony plates instead of scales.
- Unlike most fish, the scientist explained, sharks do not have bony skeletons; theirs are made of cartilage, which is relatively flexible.
- But the fossil record shows that fishes with bony skeletons had evolved long before sharks appeared on the evolutionary scene.
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