Conodont

Conodont
Conodont Co"no*dont (k[=o]"n[-o]*d[o^]nt), n. [Gr. kw^nos cone + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, tooth.] (Zo["o]l.) A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • conodont — noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary con (from Greek kōnos cone) + odont Date: 1859 a Paleozoic toothlike fossil that is probably the remains of an extinct eellike marine animal that may be an invertebrate or primitive vertebrate;… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • conodont — the problematical small tooth like fossil of the Cambrian, Silurian and Devonian periods which could well be a tooth of Cyclostomata …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • conodont — noun a) Any of several extinct fishlike chordates that had conelike teeth b) A microfossil tooth of such an animal …   Wiktionary

  • conodont — co·no·dont …   English syllables

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