ganoid

Ancient Greek γάνος (gános, “brightness, sheen”) +‎ -oid

ganoid

1. 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.
2. Having ganoid scales or plates, as a fish; specifically, of or pertaining to the Ganoidei.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     In a few minutes the huge beast had been cut up and slabs of him were hanging over a dozen camp fires, together with great scaly ganoid fish which had been speared in the lake.

ganoid (plural ganoids)

1. (zoology) One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons.

• ganoidal

• “ganoid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Godina, agonid

Borrowed from French ganoïde.

ganoid m (plural ganoizi)

1. ganoid