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rhachitome

rhachitome noun: any amphibian of the clade Rhachitomi.

Noun

rhachitome (plural rhachitomes)

  1. Any amphibian of the clade Rhachitomi.
    • The sequence of vertebral types led Watson to conclude that the primitive labyrinthodonts, embolomeres, had given rise to the rhachitomes and that these forms had eventually produced the ungainly, doomed stereospondyls.2005, Dev Raj Khanna, Biology of Amphibia, page 56

Forms of rhachitome

pluralrhachitomes

Questions about rhachitome

What does rhachitome mean?
Rhachitome means any amphibian of the clade Rhachitomi.
What part of speech is rhachitome?
Rhachitome is a noun.
What is the plural of rhachitome?
The plural of rhachitome is rhachitomes.

Words near rhachitome in the dictionary

  1. rhachiotomy
  2. rhachis
  3. rhachischisis
  4. rhachises
  5. rhachitis
  6. rhachitome
  7. rhachitomes
  8. rhachitomous
  9. rhacophorid
  10. rhacophorids
  11. rhacophorine

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