placoderm
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English
Etymology
From placo- + -derm, after German Placoderm.
Noun
placoderm (plural placoderms)
- (paleontology) 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.
- 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
placoderm (comparative more placoderm, superlative most placoderm)
- (paleontology) Pertaining to the paraphyletic class Placodermi.
- 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.
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French placoderme or German Plakoderm.
Noun
placoderm m (plural placodermi)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | placoderm | placodermul | placodermi | placodermii | |
| genitive-dative | placoderm | placodermului | placodermi | placodermilor | |
| vocative | placodermule | placodermilor | |||