Word Meanings - PLACOGANOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.
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- PLACOGANOIDEI
A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach