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megalodon

megalodon noun: a species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).

megalodon: a species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon)
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Noun

megalodon (plural megalodons)

  1. A species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).
    • Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 139
    Synonyms:
    megatooth

Synonyms of megalodon

  • megatooth

Forms of megalodon

pluralmegalodons

Origin of megalodon

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name megalodon, from Ancient Greek μεγάλος (megálos, “big”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”). By surface analysis, megalo- + -odon.

Questions about megalodon

What does megalodon mean?
Megalodon means a species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).
What part of speech is megalodon?
Megalodon is a noun.
What is the plural of megalodon?
The plural of megalodon is megalodons.

Words near megalodon in the dictionary

  1. megalocytivirus
  2. megalocytiviruses
  3. megalocytosis
  4. megalodisc
  5. megalodiscs
  6. megalodon
  7. megalodons
  8. megalodontesid
  9. megalodontesids
  10. megalodontia
  11. megalodontid

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