xenarthral

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  1. Peculiarly or strangely jointed, as a mammal's vertebræ; having certain accessory articulations of the dorsolumbar vertebræ, as the American edentates: the opposite of nomarthral. Gill, 1884.

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  1. from Greek ξένος, strange, + ἄρθρον, a joint.
 

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