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lamnoid, a. and n. Zool.|ˈlæmnɔɪd|
[f. mod.L. Lamna (a genus of sharks; a. Gr. λάµνα some kind of fish of prey) + -oid.]
A. adj. Resembling a mackerel-shark of the genus Lamna.
1898D. S. Jordan Descr. Species of Fish from Japan title-page, The Type of a Distinct Family of Lamnoid Sharks. Ibid. 199 A remarkably distinct new genus of lamnoid affinities. 1925― Fishes (rev. ed.) xiv. 190 The most active and most ferocious of the sharks, as well as the largest and some of the most sluggish, belong to a group of families known collectively as Lamnoid, because of a general resemblance to the mackerel-shark or Lamna.
B. n. One of the Lamnidæ.
In some recent Dicts. |