Pharyngognathi

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pharyngognathi \Phar`yn*gog"na*thi\, n. pl. [NL. See {Pharynx},
     and {Gnathic}.] (Zool.)
     A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are
     united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid
     fishes.
     [1913 Webster]