Acanthodes
noun
Ac·an·tho·des
-ˈthō(ˌ)dēz
: a genus of small slender possibly degenerate fishes having generalized toothless jaws and a single small dorsal fin and found in the Carboniferous and Permian formations
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Greek akanthōdēs thorny, spiny, from akanth- acanth- + -ōdēs -ode
First Known Use
1834, in the meaning defined above
- multifunction
- multifunctional
- multigenerational
- multigenic
- multigerm
- multigrade
- multigrain
- multigrains
- multigraph
- multigraphed
- multigraphing
- multigraphs
- multigravidae
- multigravidas
- multigrid
- multigroup
- multigyms
- multihandicapped
- multiheaded
- multihit
- multihomer
- multihospital
- multihued
- multihull
- multihulled