HyperDic: heterostracan

English > 1 sense of the word heterostracan:
NOUNanimalheterostracanextinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates
English > heterostracan: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningExtinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian.
Member ofHeterostraci, suborder HeterostraciExtinct group of armored jawless ... / jawless fishes or fish-like vertebrate
Broaderjawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathaneel-shaped vertebrate without jaws / jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
Spanishheterostracan
Catalanheterostracan

©2001-24 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact

English | Spanish | Catalan
Privacy | Robots

Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict