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fishapods

fishapods is the plural of fishapod.

Meaning of fishapod

Noun

fishapod (plural fishapods)

  1. (informal) Any of several extinct creatures of the subclass Tetrapodomorpha having features both of fish and tetrapods, especially Tiktaalik.
    • In these conditions, ‘fishapods’, able to do push-ups on proto-limbs to gulp fresh air from just above its river habitat, would have had an edge over those relying only on gills to extract meagre oxygen from the murky water.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12

Questions about fishapods

What is fishapods the plural of?
Fishapods is the plural of fishapod.

Words near fishapods in the dictionary

  1. fish-wrappers
  2. fish-wraps
  3. fishability
  4. fishable
  5. fishapod
  6. fishapods
  7. Fishback
  8. Fishbacks
  9. fishbait
  10. fishbaits
  11. fishball

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