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ichthyopterygium

ichthyopterygium noun: fish fin.

Noun

ichthyopterygium (plural ichthyopterygia)

  1. (comparative, obsolete) fish fin.
    • As already stated, they are used more like limbs for walking than fins for swimming, but this physiological resemblance to the limbs of the higher animals is not borne out by a morphological one; the fin is an ichthyopterygium, and shows no tendency towards modification in the direction of a...1892, “On the Anatomy and Physiology of Protopterus annectens”, in The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 30, pages 109–230
    • […]whether the tetrapod limb be derived from an ichthyopterygium like that of the shark, or an archipterygium like that of Ceratodus, or a reduced archipterygium like that of Eusthenopteron[…]1913, Robert Broom, “On the origin of the cheiropterygium”, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 32, pages 459–464

ichthyopterygium meaning in Tamil

ichthyopterygium in Tamil

இக்தியாப்ட்டெரிஜியம்

Forms of ichthyopterygium

pluralichthyopterygia

Origin of ichthyopterygium

From New Latin ichthyopterygium, from Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + πτερύγιον (pterúgion, “fin”). By surface analysis, ichthyo- + pterygium.

Questions about ichthyopterygium

What does ichthyopterygium mean?
Ichthyopterygium means fish fin.
What is ichthyopterygium in Tamil?
Ichthyopterygium in Tamil is இக்தியாப்ட்டெரிஜியம். See Ichthyopterygium meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ichthyopterygium?
Ichthyopterygium is a noun.
What is the plural of ichthyopterygium?
The plural of ichthyopterygium is ichthyopterygia.

Words near ichthyopterygium in the dictionary

  1. ichthyopolists
  2. ichthyopsid
  3. ichthyopsids
  4. ichthyopterygian
  5. ichthyopterygians
  6. ichthyopterygium
  7. ichthyornid
  8. ichthyornids
  9. ichthyornithean
  10. ichthyornitheans
  11. ichthyornithid

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