cartilaginous fish

English Thesaurus

1. fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish,
definition	:	any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	holocephalan, holocephalian,
definition	:	fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	elasmobranch, selachian,
definition	:	any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	chondrichthyes, class chondrichthyes,
definition	:	cartilaginous fishes (noun.animal)