Associations to the word «Ctenoid»

Wiktionary

CTENOID, adjective. Having a toothed margin, usually fish scales
CTENOID, adjective. Comb-like in shape.
CTENOID, noun. A ctenoidean.

Dictionary definition

CTENOID, adjective. Resembling a comb; having projections like the teeth of a comb.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope