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plethodontid

plethodontid noun: any of the Plethodontidae, a family of lungless salamanders.

Noun

plethodontid (plural plethodontids)

  1. Any of the Plethodontidae, a family of lungless salamanders.
    • The family of salamanders known as plethodontids are unusual in many ways.2007 December 4, Henry Fountain, “Inveterate Wanderer: An Intercontinental Salamander Family”, in New York Times
    • In Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, for example, they are—if you count them by weight—the dominant form of life, with 1400 tonnes of plethodontids lurking in the leaf litter and wetlands of its 600,000 hectares.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 127

Forms of plethodontid

pluralplethodontids

Origin of plethodontid

From scientific Latin Plethodontidae (family name), from Plethodon (genus name), from Ancient Greek πλῆθος (plêthos, “great number”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).

Questions about plethodontid

What does plethodontid mean?
Plethodontid means any of the Plethodontidae, a family of lungless salamanders.
What part of speech is plethodontid?
Plethodontid is a noun.
What is the plural of plethodontid?
The plural of plethodontid is plethodontids.

Words near plethodontid in the dictionary

  1. plet
  2. Pletcher
  3. Pletchers
  4. Pleternica
  5. Pleterski
  6. plethodontid
  7. plethodontids
  8. Plethon
  9. Plethonian
  10. Plethonic
  11. plethora

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