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单词 fishapod
释义

fishapod

English

Etymology

A blend of fish + tetrapod, coined by Neil Shubin circa 2006.

Noun

fishapod (plural fishapods)

  1. (informal, paleontology) Any of several extinct creatures of the subclass Tetrapodomorpha having features both of fish and tetrapods, especially Tiktaalik.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 2013 edition, Granta Books, page 12:
      In these conditions, ‘fishapods’, able to do push-ups on proto-limbs to gulp fresh air from just above its river habitat, would have had an edge over those relying only on gills to extract meagre oxygen from the murky water.
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