Meanings
noundissorophoid (plural dissorophoids)
plural dissorophoids
- biologyAny amphibian of the clade Dissorophoidea.
This diet appears to have been diversified in two clades of relatively small largeheaded and shortbodied temnospondyls, the zatracheids and dissorophoids.
2014, Rainer R. Schoch, Amphibian Evolution: The Life of Early Land Vertebrates
Origin
From Ancient Greek δῐσσός (dĭssós) ("double, twofold") + Ancient Greek ὀροφή (orophḗ) ("ceiling, roof") + -oid.
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