eurypterids
Meaning of eurypterids
plural 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 eurypterids
- It is a name.
- The singular form of eurypterids is: eurypterid.
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Hyphenation of eurypterids
eu-rypterids
- It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
- eurypterids is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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