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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., from Gr.

ὅλοσ

whole +

κεφαλή

head.]

(Zool.)

An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimæras; – called also

Holocephala

. See

; also Illustration in Appendix.

Holocephali

A taxonomic subclass within the class Chondrichthyes – the ghost sharks or chimaera.