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polypteroids

polypteroids is the plural of polypteroid.

Meaning of polypteroid

Noun

polypteroid (plural polypteroids)

  1. Any fish of the family Polypteridae.
    • But this seems an unnatural arrangement; although the polypteroids and acipenserids are similar in that the number of fin rays is greater than the number of their basal skeletal supports and because there is an unmistakable spiral valve in the intestine […]2018, Henry B. Bigelow, Soft-rayed Bony Fishes: Orders Acipenseroidei, Lepisostei, and Isospondyli

Questions about polypteroids

What is polypteroids the plural of?
Polypteroids is the plural of polypteroid.

Words near polypteroids in the dictionary

  1. polypterid
  2. polypterids
  3. polypteriform
  4. polypteriforms
  5. polypteroid
  6. polypteroids
  7. polyptota
  8. polyptote
  9. polyptotes
  10. polyptoton
  11. polyptotonic

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