Definition of Placoids

1. Noun. (plural of placoid) ¹

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Definition of Placoids

1. placoid [n] - See also: placoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Placoids

plackets
placks
placode
placoderm
placodermal
placodermata
placodermi
placoderms
placodes
placoganoid
placoganoidei
placoid
placoides
placoidian
placoidians
placoids (current term)
placophora
placozoa
placozoan
placozoans
placque
pladaroma
pladdies
pladdy
plafond
plafonds
plaga
plagal
plagal cadence
plagal cadences

Literary usage of Placoids

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepsis of Stromness by Hugh Miller (1875)
"WE have seen that some of the Silurian placoids were large of size : the question still remains, Were they high in intel ligence and organization ? ..."

2. First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the by Ezekiel Holmes, Charles Henry Hitchcock (1862)
"It seems, from this, that the first fishes formed, judging from the oldest fossil remains were placoids, and the last Cycloids. GLOSSARY: OR EXPLANATION OF ..."

3. The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepsis of Stromness by Hugh Miller (1875)
"WE have seen that some of the Silurian placoids were large of size : the question still remains, Were they high in intel ligence and organization ? ..."

4. First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the by Ezekiel Holmes, Charles Henry Hitchcock (1862)
"It seems, from this, that the first fishes formed, judging from the oldest fossil remains were placoids, and the last Cycloids. GLOSSARY: OR EXPLANATION OF ..."

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