fishapod
Americannoun
plural
fishapodsExample Sentences
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Living during the Upper Devonian period, it was dubbed a "fishapod", with its mixture of fish-like and amphibious features.
From BBC
The fishapod could be a link�or it could be a strange animal like a platypus.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fishapod is a valuable find as a missing link�another snapshot in a continuum of change.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet in the same article, they admit that the elongated fin of the fishapod would have been "worse than useless" on land and that the appendage is only "anatomically"--and not functionally--intermediate between lobed fins and legs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fishapod could be a link--or a strange animal.
From Time Magazine Archive
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