Adjective: actinopterygian
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more actinopterygian |
| Superlative | most actinopterygian |
Sample Sentences
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Already some years ago it was pointed out that the skeleton of the pelvic fin and girdle of Polypterus is much more actinopterygian than crossopterygian in structure. [1908, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Annual Meeting, volume 77, page 546:]
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Still more Actinopterygian is the skeleton of the pelvic fin; here only four bony radials are preserved, separately articulating with the pelvic girdle. [1909, Edwin Stephen Goodrich, edited by Ray Lankester, A Treatise on Zoology: Part IX: Vertebrata Craniata: (First Fascicle: Cyclostomes and Fishes), page 296:]
Adjectives inflected like actinopterygian
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Actinopterygii + -an