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Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.

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  1. a. Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.
  2. n. Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.
  3. n. One of the Placoides.
  4. adj. as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks
  5. Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids. (a) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks. (b) One of the Placoides.
  6. Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, oftenbearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.
  7. s. as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks