Definition for AC'I-PENS-ER

AC'I-PENS-ER, a.

In ichthyology, a genus of fishes of the order of Chondropterygii, having an obtuse head; the mouth under the head, retractile and without teeth. To this genus belong the sturgeon, sterlet, huso, &c. – Cyc.

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