Word
Conodont
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
co-no-dont
Definition
- n. - 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.
- noun - Small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes
- noun - The tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta
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