"Placodermi" is a word in ENGLISH
An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids.
The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust.
under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.
To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.
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Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.
Read the complete definitionIn action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an …
Read the complete definitionA group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.
Read the complete definitionA fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical …
Read the complete definitionThe extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid.
Read the complete definitionOne who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.
Read the complete definitionA genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized …
Read the complete definitionA genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with …
Read the complete definitionAn extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.
Read the complete definitionA extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.
Read the complete definitionThe act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a …
Read the complete definitionThat extinction of civil rights and capacities which takes place when-ever a person who has committed treason or felony receives …
Read the complete definitionA name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is …
Read the complete definitionThe European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian …
Read the complete definitionA cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
Read the complete definitionA conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, …
Read the complete definitionOne of an extinct English order of monks.
Read the complete definitionA burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire …
Read the complete definitionA genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, …
Read the complete definitionAn extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.
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