dipnoid

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adjective

Of, or relating to, lungfishes in the class Dipnoi.

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Meanings

adjectivedipnoid (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyOf, or relating to, lungfishes in the class Dipnoi.

    A concurrent elimination of sharks from fresh waters, with a countercurrent increase in the dipnoid and ganoid lungfishes, readily can be demonstrated.

    1941, Clair Arthaud Hannum, Comparative Chordate Anatomy: A Laboratory Text
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    The dipnoid fishes, which, as we have already seen, attained their maximum of development in the Devonian epoch, show us clearly enough how such a transition probably took place, […]

    1918, Arthur Dendy, Outlines of Evolutionary Biology

    During the Carboniferous some species of dipnoid fish had 30 million years to evolve into reptiles, unless new discoveries may point to other origins for reptiles.

    2014, Pietro Gaietto, Phylogenesis of Beauty

Origin

Dipnoi + -id or + -oid

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

dinopid
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APA

dipnoid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dipnoid

MLA

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Chicago

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