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stereospondyl

stereospondyl noun: any amphibian of the suborder Stereospondyli.

Noun

stereospondyl (plural stereospondyls)

  1. Any amphibian of the suborder Stereospondyli.
    • 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 stereospondyl

pluralstereospondyls

Questions about stereospondyl

What does stereospondyl mean?
Stereospondyl means any amphibian of the suborder Stereospondyli.
What part of speech is stereospondyl?
Stereospondyl is a noun.
What is the plural of stereospondyl?
The plural of stereospondyl is stereospondyls.

Words near stereospondyl in the dictionary

  1. stereospecific syntheses
  2. stereospecific synthesis
  3. stereospecifically
  4. stereospecificities
  5. stereospecificity
  6. stereospondyl
  7. stereospondylomorph
  8. stereospondylomorphs
  9. stereospondylous
  10. stereospondyls
  11. stereostatic

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