Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

placoderm

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pla-co-derm
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

adj

Pertaining to the paraphyletic class †Placodermi.

Example Sentences

"Out to sea are placoderms – heavily armoured fish, some of them more than six metres (twenty feet) long and equipped with massive, powerful jaws."
"Research published recently on placoderm fish fossils from Scottish Devonian lakes (around 365 myo) found evidence for how this extinct group of animals copulated."

Etymology

From placo- + -derm, after German Placoderm.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Prefix: placo
Root: Placoderm
Suffix: derm

Inflected Forms

placoderms (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Placodermi

Questions

What does placoderm mean?: 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.
Where does placoderm come from?: It is traced to German.

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