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dissorophoid

dissorophoid noun: any amphibian of the clade Dissorophoidea.

Noun

dissorophoid (plural dissorophoids)

  1. Any amphibian of the clade Dissorophoidea.
    • This diet appears to have been diversified in two clades of relatively small largeheaded and shortbodied temnospondyls, the zatracheids and dissorophoids.2014, Rainer R. Schoch, Amphibian Evolution: The Life of Early Land Vertebrates

Forms of dissorophoid

pluraldissorophoids

Origin of dissorophoid

From Ancient Greek δῐσσός (dĭssós) ("double, twofold") + Ancient Greek ὀροφή (orophḗ) ("ceiling, roof") + -oid.

Questions about dissorophoid

What does dissorophoid mean?
Dissorophoid means any amphibian of the clade Dissorophoidea.
What part of speech is dissorophoid?
Dissorophoid is a noun.
What is the plural of dissorophoid?
The plural of dissorophoid is dissorophoids.

Words near dissorophoid in the dictionary

  1. dissonating
  2. dissophyte
  3. dissophytes
  4. dissorophid
  5. dissorophids
  6. dissorophoid
  7. dissorophoids
  8. dissortative
  9. dissortativity
  10. disspell
  11. disspelled

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