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histiopterid

histiopterid noun: any fish in the family Histiopteridae, now considered to be the pentacerotid subfamily Histiopterinae.

Noun

histiopterid (plural histiopterids)

  1. Any fish in the family Histiopteridae, now considered to be the pentacerotid subfamily Histiopterinae.

Forms of histiopterid

pluralhistiopterids

Questions about histiopterid

What does histiopterid mean?
Histiopterid means any fish in the family Histiopteridae, now considered to be the pentacerotid subfamily Histiopterinae.
What part of speech is histiopterid?
Histiopterid is a noun.
What is the plural of histiopterid?
The plural of histiopterid is histiopterids.

Words near histiopterid in the dictionary

  1. histioid
  2. histiological
  3. histiology
  4. histioneutrophilic
  5. histiophagous
  6. histiopterid
  7. histiopterids
  8. histiosarcoma
  9. histiosarcomas
  10. histiostigmatid
  11. histiostigmatids

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