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Meaning of "conodont" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONODONT

From Greek kōnoscone + odont.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CONODONT

conodont  [ˈkəʊnədɒnt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONODONT

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Conodont is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CONODONT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

conodont

Conodont

Conodonts are extinct chordates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were known only from tooth-like microfossils now called conodont elements, found in isolation. Knowledge about soft tissues remains relatively sparse. The animals are also called Conodontophora to avoid ambiguity. The conodont's teeth are the earliest teeth that we find in the fossil record. Neil Shubin writes: "For a long time conodonts were enigmas: scientists disagreed over whether they were animal, vegetable or mineral. Conodonts were claimed to be pieces of clams, sponges, vertebrates, even worms. The speculation ended when whole animals started to show up in the fossil record. For years, paleontologists have argued about why hard skeletons, those containing hydroxyapatite, arose in the first place. For those who believed that skeletons began with the backbones, or body armor, conodonts provide an 'inconvenient tooth' if you will. The first hydroxyapatite-containing body parts were teeth. Hard bones arose not to protect animals but to eat them."...

Definition of conodont in the English dictionary

The definition of conodont in the dictionary is any of various small Palaeozoic toothlike fossils derived from an extinct eel-like marine animal.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONODONT


acrodont
ˈækrəˌdɒnt
creodont
ˈkriːəˌdɒnt
cynodont
ˈsaɪnəˌdɒnt
cyprinodont
sɪˈprɪnəˌdɒnt
dicynodont
daɪˈsɪnəˌdɒnt
glyptodont
ˈɡlɪptəˌdɒnt
heterodont
ˈhɛtərəˌdɒnt
homodont
ˈhəʊməˌdɒnt
isodont
ˈaɪsəʊˌdɒnt
labyrinthodont
ˌlæbəˈrɪnθəˌdɒnt
mastodont
ˈmæstəˌdɒnt
microdont
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌdɒnt
oreodont
ˈɔːrɪəˌdɒnt
pleurodont
ˈplʊərəʊˌdɒnt
polyprotodont
ˌpɒlɪˈprəʊtəʊˌdɒnt
secodont
ˈsekəˌdɒnt
sphenodont
ˈsfiːnəˌdɒnt
stegodont
ˈstɛɡəˌdɒnt
thecodont
ˈθiːkəˌdɒnt
zeuglodont
ˈzjuːɡləˌdɒnt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONODONT

connotatively
connote
connotive
connotively
connubial
connubialism
connubiality
connubially
connumerate
connumeration
conoid
conoidal
conoidally
conoidic
conoidical
conominee
conoscente
conoscenti
conquer
conquerability

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONODONT

brachyodont
diphyodont
diprotodont
lophodont
machairodont
macrodont
monodont
monophyodont
polyphyodont
rhynchodont
selenodont
zalambdodont
zygodont

Synonyms and antonyms of conodont in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «conodont» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONODONT

Find out the translation of conodont to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of conodont from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «conodont» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

牙形石
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Translator English - Spanish

conodontos
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conodont
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Translator English - Hindi

conodont
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

conodont
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

конодонтовой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

conodont
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Translator English - Bengali

conodont
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Translator English - French

conodontes
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Translator English - Malay

Conodont
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Translator English - German

Conodonten
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Translator English - Japanese

コノドント
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

코노 돈트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Conodont
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

conodont
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Translator English - Tamil

conodont
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉन्ओडोन्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

konodont
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

conodonti
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Translator English - Polish

konodontowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

конодонтовой
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

conodont
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Translator English - Greek

conodont
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Translator English - Afrikaans

conodont
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Translator English - Swedish

conodont
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Translator English - Norwegian

conodont
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of conodont

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONODONT»

The term «conodont» is normally little used and occupies the 129.089 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONODONT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «conodont» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «conodont» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about conodont

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONODONT»

Discover the use of conodont in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to conodont and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal
Three times the animal was "found," but each was quite a different animal. Were any of them really the one? Simon J. Knell takes the reader on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing.
Simon J. Knell, 2012
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Conodont Paleozoology: Ed.by Frank H.T. Rhodes,with ...
Ordovician correlation chart including recently established conodont zones163 5. Lower Ordovician (upperTremadocian) conodont occurrences ............... ..164 6. Lower Ordovician (Arenigian) conodont occurrences and provinces ........ .. 167 7.
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes, 1973
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Conodont Biofacies and Provincialism
Generalized lateral distribution of conodont taxa and facies for the Smithian in relationship to depth-related environmental gradient. rognathus and Fumishius to define three conodont zones in the Smithian. The strong facies dependence ...
David Leigh Clark, 1984
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Symposium on Conodont Biostratigraphy
90 4-5. Conodont zones and subzones and the stratigraphic ranges of some important multielement conodont species in the Middle and Upper Ordovician of Sweden 92 6. Map showing the geographic location of Middle and Upper Ordovician ...
Walter C. Sweet, Stig M. Bergström, 1970
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Permian and Triassic conodont evolution-rapid evolution of ...
Vita.
Scott M. Ritter, 1986
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A new Llandovery (early silurian) conodont biozonation and ...
Evolution, taxonomy and relationships of the Silurian conodont Prerospathodus. Palaeontology. 32(4);893-906. MCCRACKEN, A. D. l99Ia. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Llandovery (Silurian) conodonts in the Canadian Cordillera, northern ...
Shunxin Zhang, Christopher R. Barnes, 2002
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Faunal and Floral Migration and Evolution in SE Asia-Australasia
Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia ABSTRACT: Conodont faunas of the allochthonous East Asian terranes demonstrate bio- geographic affinities with Australasia during the Cambrian to Permian and suggest close proximity or attachment to ...
Ian Metcalfe, Jeremy M.B. Smith, Mike Morwood, 2001
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The First Vertebrates
Some paleontologists pictured the conodont tooth apparatus covered by a membrane to facilitate filter feeding. Others invented a variety of possible assemblages of the tooth structures for grasping, sawing, chopping, and shredding prey.
Thom Holmes, 2008
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Skeletal Biomineralization: Pattern, Processes, and ...
Conodont Apatite: Structure and Geochemistry Judith Wright Batelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Batelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352 149 Fig. 3. Microchemical analyses of a polygnathiform conodont; a. chemical.
Joseph G. Carter, 1990
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Evolutionary Biology
FUNCTION OF CONODONT APPARATUSES The strong morphological differentiation of the conodont feeding apparatus mirrors the differentiation of element function. The clear analogy between the organization of the conodont apparatus ...
Max K. Hecht, Ross J. MacIntyre, Michael T. Clegg, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONODONT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term conodont is used in the context of the following news items.
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The big five extinctions
But the discovery of an intact fossil in Scotland in the 1980s finally revealed their owner – a jawless eel-like vertebrate named the conodont ... «Cosmos, Jul 15»
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Geologist Christopher McRoberts Gains a Fossil Namesake
The recently named Quadralella mcrobertsi is a conodont: a tiny, extinct aquatic creature that might be related to the ancestors of early fish. «SUNY Cortland News, May 15»
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New evidence shows carbon's importance to ocean life's survival …
... 91,000 years before the actual Permian-Triassic boundary level – as defined worldwide by the first appearance of the fossil conodont species ... «Astrobiology Magazine, Apr 15»
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Catastrophic debris avalanches -- a second volcanic hazard
Calibration of a conodont apatite-based Ordovician 87Sr/86Sr curve to biostratigraphy and geochronology: Implications for stratigraphic ... «Science Codex, Jul 14»
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When nearly everything on Earth died in the blink of an eye
... and coincides with the first fossil appearance at Meishan of a toothy, eel-like creature called Hindeodus parvus (a conodont, the source of the ... «Christian Science Monitor, Feb 14»
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The Lost World
... spike into a tourist destination, with a manicured park and a statue of a tooth from a once common eel-like creature known as a conodont.). «New Yorker, Dec 13»
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Geologic time vs. absolute time
... shorthand for “the time represented by the chunk of the global geologic column between when we first see the conodont species Hindeodus ... «PLoS Blogs, Nov 13»
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Outside-In Origin For Your Teeth
Ideas about conodont identity have run the gamut from oddballs unrelated to our direct ancestors to pioneers of the vertebrate skeleton we ... «National Geographic, Oct 13»
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Origins Of Teeth Revealed In New Fossil Scan Study (VIDEO)
“While the later conodont tooth structures are absolutely indistinguishable from modern skeletal materials, our work shows they are not the ... «Huffington Post, Oct 13»
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Fossil Scans Reveal Origins of Teeth
“While the later conodont tooth structures are absolutely indistinguishable from modern skeletal materials, our work shows they are not the ... «Scientific American, Oct 13»

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