OSTRACODERM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ostracoderm" is a kind of...):

agnathan; jawless fish; jawless vertebrate (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)

Holonyms ("ostracoderm" is a member of...):

order Ostracodermi; Ostracodermi (extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear)

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