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ctenodactylids

ctenodactylids is the plural of ctenodactylid.

Meaning of ctenodactylid

Noun

ctenodactylid (plural ctenodactylids)

  1. Any of the several rodents of the family Ctenodactylidae.
    • Miocene and Pliocene ctenodactylids are known from Asia and Africa. In the Oligocene forms cheek-teeth were brachydont, and all known fossil ctenodactylids retained P 4 and p 4, with these teeth showing various stages of reduction.1967, Sydney Anderson, Recent Mammals of the World: A Synopsis of Families, page 30
    Synonyms:
    comb rat, gundi

Questions about ctenodactylids

What is ctenodactylids the plural of?
Ctenodactylids is the plural of ctenodactylid.

Words near ctenodactylids in the dictionary

  1. ctenocyst
  2. ctenocystoid
  3. ctenocystoids
  4. ctenocysts
  5. ctenodactylid
  6. ctenodactylids
  7. ctenodactyline
  8. ctenodactylines
  9. ctenodactyloid
  10. ctenodactyloids
  11. ctenodont

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