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Webster 1913 Edition

Plectospondyli

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Plecˊto-spon′dy-li

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] plaited + [GREEK], [GREEK], a vertebra.]

(Zool.)

An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebræ united and much modified; the Eventognathi.