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mouthbrooders

mouthbrooders is the plural of mouthbrooder.

Meaning of mouthbrooder

Noun

mouthbrooder (plural mouthbrooders)

  1. Any animal that cares for its offspring, either eggs or juveniles, by holding them in its mouth for extended periods of time.
    • However, [Franz] Steindachner (1875), in describing Arius planiceps, a catfish from Panama, found that at the breeding season the innermost edges of the ventral fins of the female are developed so as to form a kind of pocket. He conjectured that the eggs are extruded into this, fertilized by the...1918, E. W. Gudger, “Oral Gestation in the Gaff-Topsail Catfish, Felichthys felis”, in Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, volume XII, number III...
    Synonyms:
    mouthbreeder

Phrases with mouthbrooders

Questions about mouthbrooders

What is mouthbrooders the plural of?
Mouthbrooders is the plural of mouthbrooder.

Words near mouthbrooders in the dictionary

  1. mouthbreathers
  2. mouthbreathing
  3. mouthbreeder
  4. mouthbreeders
  5. mouthbrooder
  6. mouthbrooders
  7. mouthbrooding
  8. mouthbrush
  9. mouthbrushes
  10. mouthcare
  11. mouthcoating

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