Usually means: Hard, shiny fish scale type.
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  1. ganoid: Merriam-Webster
  2. ganoid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ganoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ganoid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ganoid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ganoid, ganoid: Wordnik
  7. ganoid: Wiktionary
  8. ganoid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ganoid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ganoid: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ganoid, ganoid: Dictionary.com
  12. Ganoid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ganoid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ganoid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ganoid: Rhymezone
  16. Ganoid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ganoid: FreeDictionary.org
  18. ganoid: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. ganoid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ganoid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ganoid)

adjective:  Having a smooth, shining surface, as if polished or enameled: specifically applied to those scales or plates of fishes which are generally of an angular form and composed of a bony or hard horny tissue overlaid with enamel.
adjective:  Having ganoid scales or plates, as a fish; specifically, of or pertaining to the Ganoidei.
noun:  (zoology) One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons.

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