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HETEROSTRACI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fish-like vertebrate; taxonomy is not clear
Synonyms:
Heterostraci; suborder Heterostraci
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Heterostraci" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Heterostraci"):
heterostracan (extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian)
Holonyms ("Heterostraci" is a member of...):
order Ostracodermi; Ostracodermi (extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear)