placoderm

English

Etymology

From placo- +‎ -derm, after German Placoderm.

Noun

placoderm (plural placoderms)

1. (paleontology) A member of an extinct class (Placodermi) of jawed fish with armored heads and thoraces; the group lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods. [from 19th c.]
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12:

     Out to sea are placoderms – heavily armoured fish, some of them more than six metres (twenty feet) long and equipped with massive, powerful jaws.

Adjective

placoderm (comparative more placoderm, superlative most placoderm)

1. (paleontology) Pertaining to the class Placodermi. [from 19th c.]
   • 2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

     Research published recently on placoderm fish fossils from Scottish Devonian lakes (around 365 myo) found evidence for how this extinct group of animals copulated.

See also

• Placodermi

Anagrams

• proclamed

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French placoderme or German Plakoderm.

Noun

placoderm m (plural placodermi)

1. placoderm

Declension

Declension of placoderm

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) placoderm	placodermul	(niște) placodermi	placodermii
genitive/dative	(unui) placoderm	placodermului	(unor) placodermi	placodermilor
vocative	placodermule		placodermilor