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placoderms

placoderms is the plural of placoderm.

Meaning of placoderm

Noun

placoderm (plural placoderms)

  1. A member of an extinct paraphyletic class (†Placodermi) of jawed fish with armored heads and thoraces; the group lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods.
    • Out to sea are placoderms – heavily armoured fish, some of them more than six metres (twenty feet) long and equipped with massive, powerful jaws.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12

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Questions about placoderms

What is placoderms the plural of?
Placoderms is the plural of placoderm.

Words near placoderms in the dictionary

  1. placochromatic
  2. placodal
  3. placode
  4. placoderm
  5. placodermian
  6. placoderms
  7. placodes
  8. placodioid
  9. placodioid lichen
  10. placodiolic acid
  11. placodiomorph

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