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pachypods

pachypods is the plural of pachypod.

Meaning of pachypod

Noun

pachypod (plural pachypods)

  1. (attributive, sometimes) Any of a group of animals with thick feet.
    • In size and form of the bones this metapodium suggests comparison with the pachypod mammals, and most conspicuously, by the presence of five digits, with the elephant, in which the metapodial bones are equally large.1871, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume 8, page 313

Questions about pachypods

What is pachypods the plural of?
Pachypods is the plural of pachypod.

Words near pachypods in the dictionary

  1. pachypleurosaurid
  2. pachypleurosaurids
  3. pachypleurosaurs
  4. pachypod
  5. pachypodol
  6. pachypods
  7. pachyporid
  8. pachyporids
  9. pachyptile
  10. pachyrhinosaurin
  11. pachyrhinosaurins

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