placoderm
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From placo- + -derm, after German Placoderm.
Noun
[edit]placoderm (plural placoderms)
- (paleontology) A member of an extinct class (Placodermi) of jawed fish with armored heads and thoraces; the group lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods. [from 19th c.]
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12:
- Out to sea are placoderms – heavily armoured fish, some of them more than six metres (twenty feet) long and equipped with massive, powerful jaws.
Adjective
[edit]placoderm (comparative more placoderm, superlative most placoderm)
- (paleontology) Pertaining to the class Placodermi. [from 19th c.]
- 2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
- Research published recently on placoderm fish fossils from Scottish Devonian lakes (around 365 myo) found evidence for how this extinct group of animals copulated.
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French placoderme or German Plakoderm.
Noun
[edit]placoderm m (plural placodermi)
Declension
[edit]Declension of placoderm
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) placoderm | placodermul | (niște) placodermi | placodermii |
genitive/dative | (unui) placoderm | placodermului | (unor) placodermi | placodermilor |
vocative | placodermule | placodermilor |
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