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- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλῆθος“great number”
- English todayplethodontid
From scientific Latin Plethodontidae (family name), from Plethodon (genus name), from Ancient Greek πλῆθος (plêthos, “great number”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπλῆθος all →
isopleth
First known use, by meaning
- from 20th c. Any of the Plethodontidae, a family of lungless salamanders.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.