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cros•sop•te•ryg•i•an



Pronunciation: (kro-sop"tu-rij'ē-un), [key]
n.
any fish of the group Crossopterygii, extinct except for the coelacanth, regarded as being ancestral to amphibians and other land vertebrates.

adj.
pertaining to or resembling a crossopterygian.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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