a nach or etic alt (anakoretikal)

[ An acanthin i (an"a-kan-thi'ni), n. pl . [NL., pl. of an acanthin us : see an acanth and -ini.) A group of teleostean fishes to which various limits have been a igned by ichthyologists. It is now usually rated as an order or a suborder, char acterized by the spinele vertical and ventral fins, the latter jugular or thoracic when present, and the air-blad- der, if developed, with no pneumatic duct. The group contains many edible fishes of the greatest economic im- portance, as the cod, hake, haddock, whiting, cusk, bur- bot, etc., among the gadoids, and the halibut, turbot, sole, plaice, flounder, etc., among the pleuronectids. It is di- vided by Günther into A. pleuronectoidei , characterized by having the two sides of the head unsymmetrical, and a nach or i tet (an-ak'ō-rīt), n. An old form of comprising the flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidæ, There is a sort of opinions, anachronisms at once and anachorisms , foreign both to the age and the country, that maintain a feeble and buzzing existence, scarce to be called life. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., p. 79. anchoret. it to the manifesting bi limited to those types which have the hyper coracoid imperforate and the foramen between the hyper coracoid and the hypo coracoid. It thus includes the families Gadidæ and Macrurida. Also An acanthi,