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Meaning of "cosmine" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COSMINE

From Greek kosmos arrangement + -ine1.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF COSMINE

ˈkɒzmiːn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COSMINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cosmine is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COSMINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cosmine

Cosmine is a spongy, bony material that makes up the dentine-like layers in the scales of the lobe-finned fishes of the class Sarcopterygii. Fish scales that include layers of cosmine are known as cosmoid scales.

Definition of cosmine in the English dictionary

The definition of cosmine in the dictionary is a substance resembling dentine, forming the outer layer of cosmoid scales.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COSMINE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COSMINE

cosmic · cosmic dust · cosmic radiation · cosmic rays · cosmic string · cosmic web · cosmical · cosmically · cosmid · cosmin · cosmism · cosmist · cosmochemical · cosmochemist · cosmochemistry · cosmocrat · cosmocratic · cosmodrome · cosmogenic · cosmogonal

WORDS THAT END LIKE COSMINE

Cape jasmine · cardamine · carmine · coal mine · determine · domine · dopamine · examine · famine · gold mine · iridosmine · jasmine · landmine · methamphetamine · mine · of mine · red jasmine · undermine · winter jasmine · yellow jasmine

Synonyms and antonyms of cosmine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cosmine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COSMINE

Find out the translation of cosmine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cosmine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cosmine» in English.
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cosmine
380 millions of speakers
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280 millions of speakers
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278 millions of speakers
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cosmine
270 millions of speakers
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cosmine
260 millions of speakers
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cosmine
220 millions of speakers
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Cosmine
190 millions of speakers
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cosmine
180 millions of speakers
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cosmine
130 millions of speakers
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cosmine
85 millions of speakers
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Kosmine
85 millions of speakers
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cosmine
80 millions of speakers
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cosmine
75 millions of speakers
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कॉस्मिन
75 millions of speakers
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cosmine
70 millions of speakers
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cosmine
65 millions of speakers
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cosmine
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cosmine
40 millions of speakers
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cosmine
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cosmine
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cosmine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cosmine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COSMINE»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COSMINE»

Discover the use of cosmine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cosmine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals ...
The dermal bones are covered with cosmine, as are the scales. The onychodonts were large predatory fish, with well developed jaws bearing parasymphysial tooth whorls on the lower jaw, and single teeth set in sockets along both jaws.
John A. Talent, 2012
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Skeletal Biomineralization: Pattern, Processes, and ...
Cosmine characterizes cosmoid scales. Individual cosmine sheets consist of a great number of small, hard tissue units or odontodes (mesodentine in the Osteostraci, dentine in most other bony fishes). Cosmine also occurs in osteolepid ...
Joseph G. Carter, 1990
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Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
The underlying scale layer was correctly identified as dentin, but where a similar substance occurred in nonplacoid scales, it was given the name "cosmine." By 1 907 Goodrich had recognized that in the cosmine-bearing scales of extinct ...
Marvalee H. Wake, 1992
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Fish & Fisheries
5 A) : 1. Isopedine. This is the inner (basal) layer consisting of layered bone. It is pierced by channels for blood vessels. 2. Vascular layer. This is the middle layer consisting of spongy bone and contains numerous vascular spaces. 3. Cosmine.
Dr. J.P. Shukla
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The Skull, Volume 2: Patterns of Structural and Systematic ...
"True" enamel and cosmine occur in the most primitive actinistian (Cloutier 1991a ), whereas cosmine is lost in all other actinistians, many lineages of rhipidistians, and tetrapods, and within dipnoans. The pore-canal system, a specialized ...
James Hanken, Brian K. Hall, 1993
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Devonian Osteolepiform Fishes from East Greenland
It is interesting that the area (od.Sbm) along the lateral margin overlapped by submandibulars 1-7, in its medial part (od.fr) is moderately depressed and covered by cosmine. This area widens posteriorly and forms a delimited depression (od.
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The biology and evolution of lungfishes
A discussion of the dermal skeleton in lung- fishes must focus on one such combination of tissues, cosmine, because the presence of cosmine has often been used as a diagnostic character for this group and has thus figured in discussions of ...
William E. Bemis, Warren W. Burggren, Norman E. Kemp, 1987
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Problems in vertebrate evolution: essays presented to ...
In a detailed study of the biology of cosmine in the Lower Permian osteolepid rhipidistian Ectosteorhachis nitidus Cope, it was found (Thomson, 1975) that a complete covering of cosmine on the dermal skeleton occurs only in younger fishes ...
Sheila Mahala Andrews, Roger S. Miles, Alick Donald Walker, 1977
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Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods: Controversy and ...
Panderichthys is treated here as a separate terminal taxon, but this still leaves osteolepiforms as problematic. When coding characters such as aspects of cosmine, we have used the condition in Eusthenopteron (which does not have cosmine) ...
Hans-Peter Schultze, Linda Trueb, 1991
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krishna's Chordata
Scales covered with a thick layer of cosmine. 4. Internal nostrils present. It is divided into two orders : Order 1. Osteolepiformes (Extinct) 1. Two dorsal fins. Tail fin heterocercal. 2. Paired fins lobate and of archipterygial type. 3. Scales covered ...
Dr. M. C. Bhatnagar, Dr. Geeta Bansal

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COSMINE»

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Golf: Carmel and Scarsdale win tri-matchs; more games
Cosmine Boether, 3&1; Lauren Fallen (Hk) d. Bridget Stanton, 5&4; Amanda Flock (Hk) d. Mandie Cummins, 2&1; HC Kaitlyn Shultis (HC) d. «The Journal News | LoHud.com, Apr 15»
REFERENCE
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