Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fossilized spine of a fish or fish-like vertebrate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the spiny plates found on the back and tail of certain skates.
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- noun zoology One of the
spiny plates found on the back and tail of certainskates .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Get the passive student once into palæozoology, and he takes your other hard names -- your ichthyodorulite, trogontherium, lepidodendron, and bothrodendron -- for granted, contemplating them, indeed, with a kind of religious awe or devotional reverence.
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chained_bear commented on the word ichthyodorulite
"A fossil spine of a fish or fish-like vertebrate." (OED) Var. ichthyodorylite.
September 5, 2008