Dipnoid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Dipnoid is an adjective meaning (zoology) Of, or relating to, lungfishes in the class Dipnoi.
Meaning
(zoology) Of, or relating to, lungfishes in the class Dipnoi.
Example Sentences
A concurrent elimination of sharks from fresh waters, with a countercurrent increase in the dipnoid and ganoid lungfishes, readily can be demonstrated.
During the Carboniferous some species of dipnoid fish had 30 million years to evolve into reptiles, unless new discoveries may point to other origins for reptiles.
The dipnoid fishes, which, as we have already seen, attained their maximum of development in the Devonian epoch, show us clearly enough how such a transition probably took place, […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pleuronectiform, pleuronectoid, pinnate, zeiform, clupeoid, plagiostomous.
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