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Webster 1913 Edition


Gyrolepis


Gy-rol′e-pis

(jĭ-rŏl′ē̍-pĭs)
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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
γυρόσ
round +
λεπίσ
scale.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandstone, and the lias bone beds.
Agassiz.