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pliopithecoids

pliopithecoids is the plural of pliopithecoid.

Meaning of pliopithecoid

Noun

pliopithecoid (plural pliopithecoids)

  1. A member of the extinct superfamily of catarrhine primates, Pliopithecoidea.
    • Pliopithecoids persisted in Europe, Asia and Africa long after the first true apes and Old World monkeys appeared, and the fossil of one was the specimen Darwin was referred to.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 110

Questions about pliopithecoids

What is pliopithecoids the plural of?
Pliopithecoids is the plural of pliopithecoid.

Words near pliopithecoids in the dictionary

  1. pliomerid
  2. pliomerids
  3. pliopithecid
  4. pliopithecids
  5. pliopithecoid
  6. pliopithecoids
  7. plioplatecarpine
  8. plioplatecarpines
  9. pliosaur
  10. pliosaurian
  11. pliosaurid

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