eurypterid
Meaning of eurypterid
noun
a giant fossil marine arthropod of a group occurring in the Palaeozoic era. They are related to horseshoe crabs, and resemble large scorpions with a terminal pair of paddle-shaped swimming appendages.
late 19th century: from modern Latin Eurypterus (genus name), from eury- + Greek pteron ‘wing’ + -id2.
Information about eurypterid
- It is a name.
- The plural form of eurypterid is: eurypterids.
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Hyphenation of eurypterid
eu-rypterid
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- eurypterid is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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