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temnospondyls

temnospondyls is the plural of temnospondyl.

Meaning of temnospondyl

Noun

temnospondyl (plural temnospondyls)

  1. Any of many extinct primitive amphibians (labyrinthodonts) of the order Temnospondyli, from the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods.
    • Experts disagree over whether temnospondyls were ancestral to modern amphibians (frogs, salamanders and caecilians), or whether the whole group died out without leaving descendants.

Questions about temnospondyls

What is temnospondyls the plural of?
Temnospondyls is the plural of temnospondyl.

Words near temnospondyls in the dictionary

  1. temnocephalids
  2. temnodontosaurid
  3. temnodontosaurids
  4. temnospondyl
  5. temnospondylous
  6. temnospondyls
  7. temocapril
  8. temocaprilat
  9. temocillin
  10. temogram
  11. temograms

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