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Definition: ASTEROLEPIS

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Asterolepis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references)

Etymology:Asterolepis \As`te*rol"e*pis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression 'asth`r star scale.]. (references)


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Quararibea asterolepis 4     Quararibea asterolepis 4

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