Lanarkia

noun

La·​nar·​kia

ləˈnärkēə

: a genus of fossil ostracoderms from Silurian beds having the body covered with small pointed hollow spines

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Lanark county, Scotland, its locality + New Latin -ia

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