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mormyroid

mormyroid noun: any freshwater elephantfish (family Mormyridae).

Noun

mormyroid (plural mormyroids)

  1. Any freshwater elephantfish (family Mormyridae).
    • The simple anacrosomal aquasperm of the notopteroid Papyocranus afer, the African Knife Fish, appears to be a plesiomorph condition, contrasting with the apomorphic, aflagellate sperm of mormyroids, but does not in itself necessitate exclusion of the mormyroids form the Notopteroidea in which...1991, Barrie G. M. Jamieson, Fish Evolution and Systematics

Forms of mormyroid

pluralmormyroids

Questions about mormyroid

What does mormyroid mean?
Mormyroid means any freshwater elephantfish (family Mormyridae).
What part of speech is mormyroid?
Mormyroid is a noun.
What is the plural of mormyroid?
The plural of mormyroid is mormyroids.

Words near mormyroid in the dictionary

  1. Mormugao
  2. mormyrid
  3. mormyrids
  4. mormyrin
  5. mormyrins
  6. mormyroid
  7. mormyroids
  8. mormyromast
  9. mormyromasts
  10. morn
  11. morn's morning

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