Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the Enchodontidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).
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Examples
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Together they discovered that the skull and remainder of the skeleton disappeared, but they uncovered the skull of a small fish called enchodus.
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And last year they uncovered and extracted the lower jaw from an enchodus fish.
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