chimerid

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Noun

chimerid (plural chimerids)

  1. Alternative form of chimaerid
    • 1961, The Skipper - Volume 21, page 62:
      Chimerid fishes are the primitive creatures that even the ichthyologists rarely see alive in their lifetime.
    • 1973, Biological bulletin - Volume 144, page 500:
      The association of primitive parasites with primitive hosts is often exemplified by Gyrocotyle and its chimerid host.
    • 1979, Z. Kabata, Parasitic copepoda of British fishes, page 372:
      It occurs also on chimerid fishes (Holocephala).