Teleost

n. [Gr. τέλειος, complete, and ὀστέον, bone.] (Zoöl.) One of the osseous fishes; in the plural, the order of osseous fishes, or those having a bony skeleton, membranous scales, gills free at one margin, and the optic nerve decussating, as the perch, salmon, and the like. They include both the cycloids and ctenoids. [Also written teliost.] Dana.

n. See TELEOST.