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hyolithids

hyolithids is the plural of hyolithid.

Meaning of hyolithid

Noun

hyolithid (plural hyolithids)

  1. A member of the Hyolithida order of extinct lophophorate animals.
    • A study of over 1500 specimens of Haplophrentis, a mid-Cambrian hyolithid from the celebrated Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies and the Spence Shale from Utah, has revealed the details of its soft parts.2017 January 18, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian

Questions about hyolithids

What is hyolithids the plural of?
Hyolithids is the plural of hyolithid.

Words near hyolithids in the dictionary

  1. hyolaryngeal
  2. hyolarynx
  3. hyolingual
  4. hyolith
  5. hyolithid
  6. hyolithids
  7. hyoliths
  8. Hyolmo
  9. hyomandible
  10. hyomandibles
  11. hyomandibula

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