crossopterygii

1. 1.

   fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians

   Synonymssubclass Crossopterygii

   Broaderclass

   Part ofOsteichthyes

Other forms of crossopterygii

plural

crossopterygiis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crossopterygii

What does crossopterygii mean?

crossopterygii means "fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians".

How many syllables are in crossopterygii?

crossopterygii has 6 syllables: cros-sop-te-ry-gi-i. The stress falls on "ry".

What is another word for crossopterygii?

Close synonyms include subclass Crossopterygii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crossopterygii a common word?

crossopterygii is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.