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pteropods

pteropods is the plural of pteropod.

Meaning of pteropod

Noun

pteropod (plural pteropods)

  1. Any of free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, of the suborder Thecosomata, that have winglike lobes on the feet; a sea butterfly.
    • Pteropods, also known as sea butterflies, are marine gastropods adapted to pelagic life.[…]When pteropods constitute a high percentage of the ooze the deposit is called pteropod ooze.1998, Yvonne Herman, “5: Pteropods”, in B.U. Haq, A. Boersma, editors, Introduction to Marine Micropaleontology, page 151

Questions about pteropods

What is pteropods the plural of?
Pteropods is the plural of pteropod.

Words near pteropods in the dictionary

  1. pteropodid
  2. pteropodids
  3. pteropodine
  4. pteropodines
  5. pteropodous
  6. pteropods
  7. pteropsin
  8. pteropsins
  9. pteroptochid
  10. pteroptochids
  11. pterorhodin

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