plagiostomousadj.
/ˌpleɪdʒɪˈɒstəməs/, U.S. /ˌpleɪdʒiˈɑstəməs/ Now rare.
= plagiostome adj.
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plagiostome1835
plagiostomous1842
plagiostomatous1890
1842 R. Owen in Trans. Geol. Soc. 6 200 The Sharks and other Plagiostomous Fishes.
1851 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 141 669 Several writers have recorded the fact, that in the Plagiostomous fishes the cartilaginous skeleton is covered with ‘an osseous crust’.
1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 38 The Rays form the second division of the Plagiostomous fishes.
1919 Proc. Royal Soc. 1918–19 A. 95 p. xxiv He had identified cocositol with Scyllite isolated..from the kidneys and other organs of certain plagiostomous fishes.
1928 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 49 41 The term..could equally well describe the flat-nosed Simia and the plagiostomous Selache.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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