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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TIKTAALIK

From Inuktitut: burbot.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TIKTAALIK

tiktaalik  [ˌtɪkˈtɑːlɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TIKTAALIK

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Tiktaalik 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 TIKTAALIK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tiktaalik

Tiktaalik

Tiktaalik /tɪkˈtɑːlɨk/ is a monospecific genus of extinct sarcopterygian from the late Devonian period, with many features akin to those of tetrapods. The Tiktaalik is understood as representative of the evolutionary transition from fish to amphibians. It is an example from several lines of ancient sarcopterygian fish developing adaptations to the oxygen-poor shallow-water habitats of its time, which led to the evolution of tetrapods. The Tiktaalik and animals similar to the Tiktaalik are understood to be the common ancestors of a wide swathe of all terrestrial fauna: amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Well-preserved fossils were found in 2004 on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada.

Definition of tiktaalik in the English dictionary

The definition of tiktaalik in the dictionary is an extinct species, Tiktaalik rosae, that is believed to be the missing link between water and land animals.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TIKTAALIK


aboulic
əˈbuːlɪk
abulic
əˈbuːlɪk
allelic
əˈliːlɪk
aulic
ˈɔːlɪk
Bialik
ˈbjɑːlɪk
blastocoelic
ˌblæstəʊˈsiːlɪk
enterocoelic
ˌɛntərəʊˈsiːlɪk
garlic
ˈɡɑːlɪk
hierodulic
ˌhaɪərəˈdjuːlɪk
hyperdulic
ˌhaɪpəˈdjuːlɪk
interallelic
ˌɪntərəˈliːlɪk
mandalic
mænˈdɑːlɪk
monostelic
ˌmɒnəˈstiːlɪk
nonallelic
ˌnɒnəˈliːlɪk
parhelic
pɑːˈhiːlɪk
peelgarlic
ˈpiːlˌɡɑːlɪk
phocomelic
ˌfəʊkəʊˈmiːlɪk
pilgarlic
pɪlˈɡɑːlɪk
siphonostelic
ˌsaɪfənəˈstiːlɪk
stelic
ˈstiːlɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TIKTAALIK

tik
tik-tik
tika
tikanga
tike
tiki
tiki tour
tikka
Tikkiny
tikoloshe
Tikrit
til
tilak
tilapia
Tilburg
tilburies
tilbury
tilde
Tilden
tile

WORDS THAT END LIKE TIKTAALIK

bashlik
Kubelik
kudlik
malik
nastalik
pashalik
selamlik
shashlik
shaslik
souslik
suslik

Synonyms and antonyms of tiktaalik in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tiktaalik» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TIKTAALIK

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

Translator English - Chinese

tiktaalik
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tiktaalik
570 millions of speakers

English

tiktaalik
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tiktaalik
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تيكتاليك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Tiktaalik
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tiktaalik
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tiktaalik
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Tiktaalik
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tiktaalik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tiktaalik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ティクターリク
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tiktaalik
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tiktaalik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Tiktaalik
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டிக்டாலிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टिकलेलिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tiktaalik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Tiktaalik
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Tiktaalikowie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Tiktaalik
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Tiktaalik
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tiktaalik
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tiktaalik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Tiktaalik
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tiktaalik
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tiktaalik

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TIKTAALIK»

The term «tiktaalik» is normally little used and occupies the 119.260 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tiktaalik

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIKTAALIK»

Discover the use of tiktaalik in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tiktaalik and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History ...
Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Neil Shubin, 2008
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Tiktaalik
The Moraan were responsible to look over the security of the mermaid. This is the struggling love story between a mermaid and an Indian when the legendary secret is known by two dangerous scientists.
Mohungur Aslam, 2012
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Why Evolution is True
And instead of the many tiny bones in the fins of lobe-finned fish, Tiktaalik had fewer and sturdier bones in the limbs — bones similar in number and position to those of every land creature that came later, including ourselves. In fact, its limbs  ...
Jerry A. Coyne, 2009
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The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology
Box11.1. BOX. 11.1. Tiktaalik. the. fishapod. The panderichthyids of the Middle Devonian diverged from the other tetrapodamorphs in many regards that were probable harbingers of eventual emergence onto land. Panderichthys for example ...
Gene Helfman, Bruce B. Collette, Douglas E. Facey, 2009
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Tiktaalik
Tiktaalik (pronounced/t k t l k/(deprecated template)) is a genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned "fish") from the late Devonian period, with many features akin to those of tetrapods (four-legged animals).
Jesse Russel, Ronald Cohn, 2013
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Evo-illusion
What was very puzzling to me was that the back half of Tiktaalik was missing on the book cover, just as it was in many of the pictures of Tiktaalik that I researched. I began wondering why there were so many pictures of Tiktaalik with no back ...
Stephen T. Blume, 2013
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Science, Evolution, and Creationism
Ichthyostega Tiktaalik Panderichthys of the features of fish, but it also had traits characteristic of early tetrapods. Most important, its fins contained bones that formed a limb-like appendage that the animal could use to move and prop itself up.
Committee on Revising Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, 2007
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Evolution and the Future of Mankind
Well-preserved Tiktaalik fossils were found in 2004 on Ellesmere Island in Canada35. There were several lines of ancient fish with lobed fins that eventually evolved into legs as an adaptation to the oxygen-poor shallow-water habitats of the ...
Lawrence Wood, 2010
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Prehistoric Bony Fish: List of Prehistoric Bony Fish, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source: Wikipedia, Books Llc, Books Group, 2011
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The New Answers Book 3: Over 35 Questions on ...
But Daeschler, Shubin, and Jenkins — the discoverers of Tiktaalik — claim that " Panderichthys possesses relatively few tetrapod synapomorphies, and provides only partial insight into the origin of major features of the skull, limbs, and axial ...
Ken Ham, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TIKTAALIK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tiktaalik is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nunavut's fish fossil treasures come home to Canada
Ted Daeschler, a paleontologist with the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, displays the skull of Tiktaalik, the 375-million-year-old fish whose ... «Nunatsiaq News, Jun 15»
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Canadian Museum of Nature unveils ancient limbed fish fossil
Some 60 fossils of Tiktaalik roseae, which lived about 375 million years ago, were returned to Canada this week and will now be housed at the museum, with the ... «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
3
Tiktaalik Field Knife Set
I've happily used Mora and Leatherman knives in my camp kitchen for years, but the sleek Field Knife Set from Tiktaalik has me drooling. First thing you'll notice: ... «Outside Magazine, Jun 15»
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Drexel Snapshot: Walking Fossil Fish Tiktaalik Hits the Road
Just this morning, it was wheels-up for Tiktaalik, as Shubin carried the type specimen—the first-described individual of the species—on a flight from Chicago to ... «DrexelNow, Jun 15»
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Scientists discover genes that may have caused fish to grow limbs
In particular, the scientists wanted to study how the extinct Tiktaalik roseae enabled emerging tetrapods - animals with limbs - to crawl in shallow water or on ... «Daily Mail, Dec 14»
6
Did the Evolution of Animal Intelligence Begin With Tiktaalik?
In 2004, when the fossil bones of Tiktaalik roseae were dug from the ground of Ellesmere Island, in the Canadian Arctic, the discovery was hailed as a ... «Smithsonian, May 14»
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The Darwin Fish Is a Real Fossil, and Creationists Hate It
Sure enough, in 2004, scientists found one of those transitional species: Tiktaalik roseae, a 375-million-year-old Devonian period specimen discovered in the ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 14»
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With “Your Inner Fish”, Tiktaalik Gets Its Close-Up—On TV, Online …
Tiktaalik is already extremely famous for an ancient fish fossil. It's one of the best-known transitional species between fish that swim in the water and the first ... «DrexelNow, Apr 14»
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Q&A: Neil Shubin Explores "Your Inner Fish"
Icons of evolution don't come much uglier than Tiktaalik, the land-walking ancient fish from 375 million years ago. (See: "Our Fishy Ancestors Had Fins Made for ... «National Geographic, Mar 14»
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Devonian Period: Climate, Animals & Plants
The earliest known tetrapod is Tiktaalik rosae. Dated from the mid-Devonian, this fossil creature is considered to be the link between the lobe-finned fishes and ... «LiveScience.com, Feb 14»

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