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adj
Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoid fish
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Such a scale
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noun
Any fish having placoid scales, such as the sharks
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A placodioid lichen
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adjective satellite
as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
From Ancient Greek πλάξ (pláx, stem plak-) + -oid.
