"placodont" meaning in English

See placodont in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: placodonts [plural]
Etymology: From placo- + -odont, after scientific Latin Placodus (genus name). Etymology templates: {{confix|en|placo|odont}} placo- + -odont Head templates: {{en-noun}} placodont (plural placodonts)
  1. An extinct marine reptile of the order Placodontia. Wikipedia link: placodont Categories (lifeform): Sauropterygians

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "placo",
        "3": "odont"
      },
      "expansion": "placo- + -odont",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From placo- + -odont, after scientific Latin Placodus (genus name).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "placodonts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "placodont (plural placodonts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with placo-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -odont",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sauropterygians",
          "orig": "en:Sauropterygians",
          "parents": [
            "Reptiles",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 74:",
          "text": "The dentition of placodonts was very interesting, as they all had large crushing teeth on the palate.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An extinct marine reptile of the order Placodontia."
      ],
      "id": "en-placodont-en-noun-LeY0p9YF",
      "links": [
        [
          "extinct",
          "extinct"
        ],
        [
          "marine",
          "marine"
        ],
        [
          "reptile",
          "reptile"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "placodont"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "placodont"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "placo",
        "3": "odont"
      },
      "expansion": "placo- + -odont",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From placo- + -odont, after scientific Latin Placodus (genus name).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "placodonts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "placodont (plural placodonts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with placo-",
        "English terms suffixed with -odont",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (order)",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Sauropterygians"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 74:",
          "text": "The dentition of placodonts was very interesting, as they all had large crushing teeth on the palate.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An extinct marine reptile of the order Placodontia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extinct",
          "extinct"
        ],
        [
          "marine",
          "marine"
        ],
        [
          "reptile",
          "reptile"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "placodont"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "placodont"
}

Download raw JSONL data for placodont meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.