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Placoid   Listen
noun
Placoid  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.
(b)
One of the Placoides.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Placoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'Vertebrata', the same law holds good: certain types, such as those of the ganoid and placoid fishes, having persisted from the palaeozoic epoch to the present time without a greater amount of deviation from the normal standard than that which is seen within the limits of the group as it now exists. Even among the 'Reptilia'—the ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley



Words linked to "Placoid" :   two-dimensional, platelike, planar



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