Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Pycnodontidæ, or having their characters.
- noun A fossil fish of the family Pycnodontidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the
extinct oyster genus Pycnodonte.
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97 [Pycnodus tooth] Another species of pycnodont is represented by its tooth in fig. 97, which appears to be much less common than the preceding.
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