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Webster 1913 Edition


Pterichthys


Pte-rich′thys

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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] wing + [GREEK] fish.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See
Placodermi
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