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placoderm

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A member of an extinct paraphyletic class (†Placodermi) of jawed fish with armored heads and thoraces; the group lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. adjective Pertaining to the paraphyletic class †Placodermi.

Similar words

placoidian ostracoderm platycephalid dinichthyid placoid scleroderm aplodactylid petalichthyid cladodont platyrhinid

Often followed by

fishes desmids fish ancestors from

Word family

placoderms

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