Definition of Heterostracan

1. Noun. Extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterostracan

heterosomes
heterosomic
heterospecific
heterospecific antibody
heterospecific graft
heterospecifics
heterosphere
heterospheres
heterospories
heterosporous
heterospory
heterosquare
heterosquares
heterostasis
heterostatic
heterostracan (current term)
heterostructural
heterostructure
heterostructured
heterostructures
heterostyled
heterostylism
heterostylous
heterostyly
heterosubstituted
heterosuggestion
heterosyllabic
heterotactic
heterotactous
heterotaxia

Literary usage of Heterostracan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1900)
"These five species constitute a very important addition to our scanty heterostracan fauna and enable us to realize better than was previously possible the ..."

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