archipterygium love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The archetypal form or primitive type of the skeleton of the limbs of vertebrates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.

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  • noun anatomy A primitive fin, like that of Ceratodus.

Etymologies

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New Latin, from Ancient Greek.

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