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dipnoid

dipnoid adjective: of, or relating to, lungfishes in the class Dipnoi.

Adjective

dipnoid (not comparable)

  1. Of, or relating to, lungfishes in the class Dipnoi.
    • The dipnoid fishes, which, as we have already seen, attained their maximum of development in the Devonian epoch, show us clearly enough how such a transition probably took place, […]1918, Arthur Dendy, Outlines of Evolutionary Biology
    • A concurrent elimination of sharks from fresh waters, with a countercurrent increase in the dipnoid and ganoid lungfishes, readily can be demonstrated.1941, Clair Arthaud Hannum, Comparative Chordate Anatomy: A Laboratory Text

Origin of dipnoid

Dipnoi + -id or + -oid

Questions about dipnoid

What does dipnoid mean?
Dipnoid means of, or relating to, lungfishes in the class Dipnoi.
What part of speech is dipnoid?
Dipnoid is an adjective.

Words near dipnoid in the dictionary

  1. dipneumonous
  2. dipnictide
  3. dipnictides
  4. dipnoan
  5. dipnoans
  6. dipnoid
  7. dipnomorph
  8. dipnomorphs
  9. dipnoous
  10. dipnorhynchid
  11. dipnorhynchids

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