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moloid

moloid noun: a species in the Molidae subfamily, which includes molas and ocean sunfish.

Noun

moloid (plural moloids)

  1. A species in the Molidae subfamily, which includes molas and ocean sunfish.
    • The moloids are without pelvis or ribs; they have the body truncated behind, the caudal region aborted, and the jaws without median sutures.1890, “Molidea, n. pl.”, in William Dwight Whitney, editor, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 3825...
    • The latter are divided into two clades, one of which is composed of the remaining scleroderms, with Balistidae + Monacanthidae (balistoids) as sister to Aracanidae + Ostraciidae (ostracioids); the other is composed of the gymnodonts, with Triodontidae (triodontoids) as sister to (Tetraodontidae +...2003 December 2, Francesco Santini, James C. Tyler, “A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent”, in...

Adjective

moloid (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the Molidae subfamily.
    • geph-y'ro-cer"cal. […] Having the caudal fin formed by the dorsal and anal uniting over the aborted axis of the body, as in moloid sunfishes.1894, Isaac K[aufmann] Funk, editor, A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, volume I, New York, N.Y. […]: Funk & Wagnalls Company, page 758, column 2

Forms of moloid

pluralmoloids

Questions about moloid

What does moloid mean?
Moloid means a species in the Molidae subfamily, which includes molas and ocean sunfish.
What part of speech is moloid?
Moloid can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of moloid?
The plural of moloid is moloids.

Words near moloid in the dictionary

  1. Molodohvardiisk
  2. Molof
  3. Mologa
  4. molohiya
  5. moloi
  6. moloid
  7. moloids
  8. molois
  9. Molok
  10. Molokai
  11. Molokan

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