English Explanatory Dictionary

sarcopterygian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any lobe-finned fish of the class Sarcopterygii, including the lungfish and coelacanths.
  2. Any member of the clade that contains both lobe-finned fish and tetrapods (land vertebrates).

Word forms

sarcopterygian sarcopterygians

Etymology

From Sarcopterygii + -ian.

Synonyms

lobefin

Antonyms

actinopterygian
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary