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Cephalaspida

noun

extinct group of armored fish-like vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear

• Syn: ↑Osteostraci, ↑suborder Osteostraci, ↑suborder Cephalaspida

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Ostracodermi, ↑order Ostracodermi

• Member Meronyms: ↑osteostracan, ↑cephalaspid

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\\-pədə\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Cephalaspis + -ida

: a class or lesser division of primitive extinct vertebrates including Cephalaspis and a few related genera of Devonian ostracoderms

Useful english dictionary. 2012.