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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PLECTOGNATH

Via New Latin from Greek plektos twisted + gnathos jaw.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PLECTOGNATH

plectognath  [ˈplɛktɒɡˌnæθ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLECTOGNATH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Plectognath can act as a noun and an adjective.
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.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PLECTOGNATH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of plectognath in the English dictionary

The definition of plectognath in the dictionary is any spiny-finned marine fish of the mainly tropical order Plectognathi, having a small mouth, strong teeth, and small gill openings: includes puffers, triggerfish, trunkfish, sunfish, etc. Other definition of plectognath is of, relating to, or belonging to the order Plectognathi.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLECTOGNATH


chaetognath
ˈkiːtɒɡˌnæθ
snath
snæθ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLECTOGNATH

plebeianism
plebeianize
plebeianly
plebification
plebify
plebiscitary
plebiscite
plebs
plecopteran
plecopterous
plectognathic
plectognathous
plectra
plectron
plectrum
pled
pledgable
pledge
Pledge of Allegiance
pledgeable

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLECTOGNATH

aftermath
bath
beneath
breath
death
heath
in at the death
in the same breath
Jagannath
Jagganath
math
out of breath
path
put to death
sheath
take an oath
to death
underneath
with bated breath
wrath

Synonyms and antonyms of plectognath in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «plectognath» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLECTOGNATH

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

Translator English - Chinese

plectognath
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

plectognath
570 millions of speakers

English

plectognath
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

plectognath
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

plectognath
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

plectognath
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

plectognath
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

plectognath
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plectognath
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Plectognath
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

plectognath
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

plectognath
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

plectognath
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Plectognath
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

plectognath
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

plectognath
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेचकटनाथ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

plectognath
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

plectognath
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

plectognath
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

plectognath
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plectognath
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

plectognath
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

plectognath
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

plectognath
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Translator English - Norwegian

plectognath
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Trends of use of plectognath

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLECTOGNATH»

The term «plectognath» is normally little used and occupies the 131.450 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLECTOGNATH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «plectognath» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «plectognath» 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 plectognath

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLECTOGNATH»

Discover the use of plectognath in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to plectognath and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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New Records of Triacanthoid Plectognath Fishes: Notulae ...
of triacanthodid Hollardia goslinei described above in having other than 12 caudal fin rays. This juvenile T. biaculeatus has 1 1 fin rays in its otherwise perfectly formed caudal fin, the uppermost and the lowermost ray unbranched and the other ...
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New Species of Triacanthodid Plectognath Fish from the ...
1966 The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia A NEW SPECIES OF TRIACANTHODID PLECTOGNATH FISH FROM THE CARIBBEAN. HOLLARDIA MEADI by James C. Tyler Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology Academy of ...
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The Fishes of the Galápagos Islands
Notes on the plectognath fishes. 1. A synopsis of the genera of the family Balistidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 10(15): 658-63. . 1935b. Notes on the plectognath fishes. 2. A synopsis of the genera of the family Ostraciontidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist ...
Jack Stein Grove, 1997
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PROCEEDINGS OF The Academy of Natural Science OF PHILADELPHIA
Brian, Carl B. 1856. Osteologisches aus dem Pariser Pflanzengarten. — Wien: A-G + 76 + xliii pp., 11 pls. Clark, Eugenie. 1950. Notes on the behavior and morphology of some West Indian plectognath fishes. — Zoologica, vol. 35, no. 13, pp.
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology
FRASER-BRUNNER, A. 1943: Notes on the Plectognath fishes - VIII. The classification of the Suborder Tetraodontoidea, with a synopsis of the genera. Annals & Magazine of Natural History, Series 11, 10(1): 1-18. GLOVER, C.J.M. 1976: The ...
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Collected Papers
New York University. Dept. of Biology. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1941b. Notes on the plectognath fishes. VI. A synopsis of. 1. The gross morphology of digestive tracts of all the suborders of the Plectognathi are described from representatives, with ...
New York University. Dept. of Biology, 1947
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Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences Special ...
A monograph on plectognath fishes of the superfamily Triacanthoidea. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph No. 16: 364 pp. 1970. An especially small, sexually dimorphic new species of filefish (Monacanthidae) from  ...
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology
FRASER-BRUNNER, A. 1943: Notes on the Plectognath nshes - VIII. The classification of the Suborder Tetraodontoidea, with a synopsis of the genera. Annals and Maga:inc of Natural History, Series II, 10(1): 1-18. FREMINVILLE, M. 1813: ...
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Zoologica
1935. Notes on the Plectognath fishes. II. A synopsis of the genera of the family Ostraciontidae. Ibid., no. 16, pp. 313-320, 1 fig. 1941. Notes on the Plectognath fishes. V. The families of Triacanthiform fishes, with a synopsis of the genera and  ...
‎1953
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On the anatomy of vertebrates
In another plectognath, the odd- shaped Sun-fish (Orthagoriscus) the muscles of the continuous vertical fins take the place of the ordinary myocommas : those of the lofty dorsal commencing behind the occiput ; those of the deep anal behind ...
Richard Owen, 1866

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