Chondropterygii :: Chondropterygii (n. pl.) A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter..
Drop :: Drop (n.) The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water..
Drop :: Drop (n.) That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug..
Drop :: Drop (n.) Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something.
Drop :: Drop (n.) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself..
Drop :: Drop (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck..
Drop :: Drop (n.) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.
Drop :: Drop (n.) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc..