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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a spear +

ὀδούς

ὀδόντος

, a tooth.]

(Paleon.)

A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; – so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (

Esox

Enchodus m

A taxonomic genus within the family Enchodontidae – certain extinct bony fish that flourished during the Upper Cretaceous period, with large fangs at the front of the upper and lower jaws and on the palatine bones..