sb. and a. Zool. [f. prec.: cf. anodon, -ont, etc.] Belonging to the family of fishes of which the Cestracion is the representative. Used also as sb.
1847. Carpenter, Zool., § 589. The teeth … not so much flattened as those of the Cestracionts.
1862. Dana, Man. Geol., 276. The Cestraciont family of sharks.
1863. A. C. Ramsay, Phys. Geog., xiv. 230. Many of the Placoids are Cestraciont fish.
