PLACODERM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does placoderm mean? 

• PLACODERM (noun)
  The noun PLACODERM has 1 sense:

1. fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws

  Familiarity information: PLACODERM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLACODERM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

aquatic vertebrate (animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water)

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

class Placodermi; Placodermi (extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws)