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Webster 1913 Edition

Anacanths

{ ‖

Anˊa-can′thi-ni

,

An′a-canths

, }

Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἀν

priv. + [GREEK] thorny, fr. [GREEK] thorn.]

(Zool.)

A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.