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mormyroids

mormyroids is the plural of mormyroid.

Meaning of mormyroid

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

Questions about mormyroids

What is mormyroids the plural of?
Mormyroids is the plural of mormyroid.

Words near mormyroids in the dictionary

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

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