Associations to the word «Ganoid»

Wiktionary

GANOID, adjective. Having a smooth, shining surface, as if polished or enameled: specifically applied to those scales or plates of fishes which are generally of an angular form and composed of a bony or hard horny tissue overlaid with enamel.
GANOID, adjective. Having ganoid scales or plates, as a fish; specifically, of or pertaining to the Ganoidei.
GANOID, noun. (zoology) One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons.

Dictionary definition

GANOID, noun. Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats