hexanchid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of translingual Hexanchidae

Noun[edit]

hexanchid (plural hexanchids)

  1. (zoology) Any member of the family Hexanchidae, of cow sharks.
    • 1995, P.J.Smart, Hexanchid shark teeth (Chondrichthyes, Vertebrata) from the Lower Cretaceous Albian sediments of Leighton Buzzard, South-central England‎[1]:
      Hexanchid sharks (Family Hexanchidae) are extremely rare in Lower Cretaceous deposits and are known only from isolated teeth.
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