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Armadillo
noun · 78% connection
Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony pla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Buckler
noun · 78% connection
One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Cataphracted
adjective · 78% connection
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Cestraciont
noun · 78% connection
A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Mos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Chelonia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Cuirass
noun · 78% connection
An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Cuirassed
adjective · 78% connection
Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; -- said of certain fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Edentata
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Encoubert
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Entomophaga
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of edentates, including the ant-eaters.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Exoskeleton
noun · 78% connection
The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Fodientia
n.pl. · 78% connection
A group of African edentates including the aard-vark.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Ganocephala
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Ganoidei
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Glyptodon
noun · 78% connection
An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Gymnodont
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
Hylaeosaurus
noun · 78% connection
A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suborder, edentates, covered, bony, plates.
