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stereospondyls

stereospondyls is the plural of stereospondyl.

Meaning of stereospondyl

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

Questions about stereospondyls

What is stereospondyls the plural of?
Stereospondyls is the plural of stereospondyl.

Words near stereospondyls in the dictionary

  1. stereospecificity
  2. stereospondyl
  3. stereospondylomorph
  4. stereospondylomorphs
  5. stereospondylous
  6. stereospondyls
  7. stereostatic
  8. stereostatic arch
  9. stereostatics
  10. stereostructural
  11. stereostructure

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