Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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