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hesperornithids

hesperornithids is the plural of hesperornithid.

Meaning of hesperornithid

Noun

hesperornithid (plural hesperornithids)

  1. Any extinct avialan in the family Hesperornithidae.
    • Finally, the Volgorod locality, Maastrichtian in age, has yielded two dinosaurs (an indeterminate hesperornithid and a basal theropod) and a few turtles.2011, David B. Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu, Transylvanian Dinosaurs, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 109

Questions about hesperornithids

What is hesperornithids the plural of?
Hesperornithids is the plural of hesperornithid.

Words near hesperornithids in the dictionary

  1. hesperomyines
  2. Hesperonesian
  3. hesperornithean
  4. hesperornitheans
  5. hesperornithid
  6. hesperornithids
  7. hesperornithiform
  8. hesperornithiforms
  9. hesperornithine
  10. hesperornithines
  11. Hesperus

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