hybodont

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noun

An extinct shark (or similar fish) of the order Hybodontiformes.

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Meanings

nounhybodont (plural hybodonts)

plural hybodonts

  1. An extinct shark (or similar fish) of the order Hybodontiformes.

    At least for one species of hybodont, the mountain lakes of Central Asia provided a nursery for their young, a place where adults would congregate and mate.

    2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 165
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