Crossword-Solution: ACRODUS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ACRODUS | anagram | CRUSADO |
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| TRIASSIC fish fossil | 1 answer |
| FISH fossil | 3 answers |
| fossil fish | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ACRODUS (4)
There are many fishes, some of which (_acrodus_, _psammodus_, &c.,) are presumed from remains of their palatal bones, to have been of the gigantic cartilaginous class, now represented by such as the cestraceon.
They are of very various forms,--some of them squat and round, like ill-formed small shot,--others spiky and sharp, not unlike flooring nails,--some straight as needles, some bent like the beak of a hawk,--some, like the palatal teeth of the Acrodus of the Lias, resemble small leeches; some, bearing a series of points ranged on a common base, like masts on the hull of a vessel, the tallest in the centre, belong to the genus Hybodus.
Owen has remarked that as the marsupial genera, to which the _Phascolotherium_ is most nearly allied, are now confined to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, so also is it in the Australian seas, that we find the _Cestracion_, a cartilaginous fish which has a bony palate, allied to those called _Acrodus_ and _Psammodus_ (see figs.
The _Acrodus nobilis_, of which the teeth are still preserved, and popularly known by the name of _fossil leeches_, was a fish of which an entire skeleton has never been met with.