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hesperornithiforms

hesperornithiforms is the plural of hesperornithiform.

Meaning of hesperornithiform

Noun

hesperornithiform (plural hesperornithiforms)

  1. Any of the clade †Hesperornithes of extinct toothed birds.
    • Flight loss among marine divers started in the Cretaceous, among the hesperornithiforms and perhaps separately in the baptornithids.2002, Gregory S. Paul, Dinosaurs of the Air, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 151

Questions about hesperornithiforms

What is hesperornithiforms the plural of?
Hesperornithiforms is the plural of hesperornithiform.

Words near hesperornithiforms in the dictionary

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

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