Enchophyllum (enkofilum)

[NL. (Amyot and Serville, 1843), markings, inhabits tropical America. enchorial (en-kō'ri-al), a. [ The demotic or enchorial writing is merely a form of hieratic used for the vulgar dialect, and employed for Enchelycephali (enkel-i-sef'a-li), n . pl . [NL., pl. of enchelycephalus : see enchelycephalous. A group of apodal teleostean fishes, containing the true eels and congers, as distinguished from the murænoids, etc., which form the group Colo- cephali. The technical characters are the absence of a pre coracoid arch and symplectic bone, in connection with a developed pre operculum and opercular bones. In Cope's system the group is an order of physostomous fishes; in enchoristic (en-kō-ris'tik), a. [As enchor - ial Gill's, a suborder of Apodes . legal documents from the time of Dyn. XXVI. downwards. Encyc. Brit ., VII. 721.