ostracoderm

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(ostrə kō dûrm′)


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os•tra•co•derm  (ostrə kō dûrm′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Paleontologyany of several extinct jawless fishes of the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods, having the body enclosed in an armor of bony plates.
  • Greek ostrakódermos with a shell, equivalent. to óstrako(n) shell, tile + -dermos -derm
  • Neo-Latin Ostracodermi, plural ofOstracodermus
  • 1890–95


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