Image from page 173 of The Century dictionary and cyclopedia (1897) (14784817652)

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Title: The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world ..

Year: 1897 (1890s)

Authors: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894 Smith, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Eli), 1857-1913

Subjects: English language Atlases Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Publisher: New York : The Century Co.

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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oid fish, Iodothecus acipenserinus, with a com-pressed tapering body, about 12 polygonalplates on the breast, 9 spines and 7 rays in thedorsal fins, gill-membranes united to the isth-mus, and the lower jaw shutting within the up-per. It is about a foot in length, and is commonfrom Puget Sotmd northward.—2. Any ago-nid; a fish of the family Agonidee (which see). alligator-forceps (ali-ga-tor-forseps), n. Asmgical forceps with short jaws, haiing teeththroughout their length, and one of them work-ing by a double lever. It suggests an alligator. alligatorid (ali-ga-torid), h. One of the Al-lii/atorida. Alligatoridae (ali-ga-tori-de), n. pi. [NL., <Alligiitor + -idiv.] A family of saurian reptiles,of the order Crocodilia, related to the familyCrocodilida, and with some authors forming onlya subfamily {Alligatorina) of the latter; bymost natmaUsts now judged to be distinct. Tlietypical genus of the family is Alligator; other genera areCaiman and Jacare (which see). According to Huxleys

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