lepidosiren

noun

lep·​i·​do·​siren

1

capitalized : a genus of eel-shaped dipnoan fishes containing a single species (Lepidosiren paradoxa) inhabiting the swamps of the Amazon and La Plata rivers and their tributaries and with the related Protopterus constituting a family (Lepidosirenidae)

2

plural -s : any fish of the genus Lepidosiren or of the family Lepidosirenidae

lepidosirenoid

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adjective or noun

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from lepid- + Siren

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