crossopterygii
Crossopterygii
Cros*sop`te*ryg"i*i\ (kr?s-s?p`t?-r?j?-?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ??? tassels, a fringe + ?????, dim. of ???? wing, fin.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
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| crossopterygii | |
noun | |
| fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians |
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Crossopterygii
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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