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Webster 1913 Edition


Ostracodermi


Osˊtra-coder′mi

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p
rop.
Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ὄστρακον
shell of a testacean + [GREEK] skin.]
(Zool.)
A suborder of fishes of which
Ostracion
is the type.