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tailshields

tailshields is the plural of tailshield.

Meaning of tailshield

Noun

tailshield (plural tailshields)

  1. The pygidium.
    • Trilobites have a distinct headshield or cephalon and a distinct tailshield or pygidium, and in both these regions the original segmentation has been suppressed — more completely in the cephalon than in the pygidium — and [...]1985, E. W. Nield, Ted Nield, V. C. T. Tucker, Palaeontology, an Introduction

Questions about tailshields

What is tailshields the plural of?
Tailshields is the plural of tailshield.

Words near tailshields in the dictionary

  1. tails in
  2. tails off
  3. tailshaft
  4. tailshafts
  5. tailshield
  6. tailshields
  7. tailsitter
  8. tailsitters
  9. tailskid
  10. tailskids
  11. tailslide

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