what does cephalaspidomorphi mean?
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Here’s some Greek for you: \nCephali = head\nAspida = shield \nMorphi = shape
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Nepidae is a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera. Sometimes it is placed in the infraorder Nepomorpha.[1] They are commonly called water scorpions for their superficial resemblance to a scorpion, which is due to the modification of the legs of the anterior pair for prehension, and to the presence of a long slender process, simulating a tail, at the posterior end of the abdomen. There are two genera in the family, Nepa and Ranatra. Members of the Ranatra are sometimes called needle bugs or water stick insects as they are more slender than Nepa. The common British species (Nepa cinerea) lives in ponds and stagnant water, and feeds upon aquatic animal organisms principally of the insect kind. Respiration in the adult is effected by means of the caudal process, which consists of a pair of half-tubes capable of being locked together to form a siphon by means of which air is conducted to the tracheae at the apex of the abdomen when the tip of the tube is thrust above the surface of the water. In immature forms the siphon is undeveloped and breathing takes place through six pairs of abdominal spiracles. The eggs, laid in the stems of plants, are supplied with seven filamentous processes which float freely in the water.\n\nIn Nepa the body is broad and flat; but in an allied water-bug, Ranatra, which contains a single British species (R. linearis), it is long and narrow, while the legs are very slender and elongate. Certain members of this group, sometimes erroneously referred to the Nepidae, but really forming a separate family, Belostomatidae (giant water bugs), are of large size, a South American species, Belostoma grande, reaching a length of between 4 and 5 in.
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Your most advanced animals have what is called bilateral symmetry.  This simply means they have two sides to their body.  The right and the left.  They also have what is called cephalization where most of the organisms sense organs are located in the area of the head.  It is a body plan that seems to work in the scheme of evolution.  It helps the animal adapt to a new environment since the head is the firs body part to enter it.
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Cephalopod transtates literally to Head Foot.  THey are a class of mollusks that include squids and octopi.
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by primitive and advanced, a paleontologist doesn't mean the same thing as one normally thinks of when you hear 'primitive' or 'advanced'.\n\nPrimitive means closer to the ancestral form, unmodified from that which has been inherited through phylogeny.  A more proper term would be plesiomorphic.  Two groups which share a plesiomorphic trait, such as five fingers, would be synplesiomorphic, suggesting that those lineages inherited the trait from a common ancestor.  For example, bats, humans, tree frogs and monitor lizards would share the synplesiomorphy of five digits on the forelimb.  This trait can be traced back to the Rhipidistian Sarcopterygian fish.  Primitive does not mean inferior, only that it has not been modified from the ancestral state.\n\nAdvanced, derived or synapomorphous traits are ones that have been modified from the ancestral condition.  The two digits of the T. rex are highly derived from the original five digit condition.  So is the two foreclaws possessed by the two-toed sloth.  These traits, although highly derived, so not share a similar phylogenetic origin.  They also are not necessarily superior to five gigits, or 'more evolved', they are simply an adaptation in that lineage that has taken place that is different that the adaptations that earlier organisms in that lineage possessed.\n\nThe reason we (and all tetrapods) have five digits as a primitive trait is due to the fin structure of that first fishie that started wandering out on land and becoming the first amphibian.  Those Sarcopterygians had a number of bony ossicles in their loby fins that helped provide some support to their fleshy fins as they pushed their way onto land.  It just happened that those ossicles were arranged in more or less five rows, and these rows eventually became adapted to become the digits of our ancestral amphibian great-grandparents.  Had we evolved from the Actinopterygians (ray-finned fish), perhaps we'd have thirty or forty fingers.  Who knows?
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I think you mean callipygophile.  I can't find the word but it is probably related to callipygian, which means having shapely buttocks.  I would guess it is means a person who is attracted to the backsides of people of the opposite sex.
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Sorry but Verisimile is not a word. \n\nverisimilitude is a word as well as verisimilar and verisimilitudinous.
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I believe, that you are looking for amoeba.\nAmoeba's are from the kingdom: Zooplankton,  which has animal like characteristics. The Amoeba, in particular, belongs to the phylum: sarcodina which have characteristics such as having a coinceboid shape (no shape), and being able to flow by extending it's cell membrane to form false feet (pseudopod).\n\nBut, there are still several others that can be classified in this category: Paramecium cordatum (from the phylum: ciliophora), Trypanosoma gambiensis (from the phylum: mastigophora), and Plasmodium vivox (from the phylum: sporozoa)\nAs you see, there is more then one choice in this matter.\n\nHope this helps!
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That would be a bit hard, you don't have similar "deminutivi".\n1. Means little, pretty duck. How d'you call it? Ducky?;)\n2. The same, but it is a male duck;)\n3. Little rabbit.\n4. Just: rabbit.\nWhat is that for? <lol> You have a polish boyfriend who calls you that?;)))
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Echinoderms are not segmented, as others have already said.\nAnd the word "echinodermarta" literally means "spiny skin", and they do have skeletal "plates" on their outsides, though in some echinoderms (like sea cucumbers) these are kind of soft.
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imbalanced\nincline\ninclined\nindependent levers\n\nisosceles- describes the fulcrum point
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hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia --fear of long words (gotta love the irony...)\n\nEtymology\nFanciful extension of sesqui(p)pedalophobia with monstrum "monster" and a truncated form of hippopotamus, intended to exaggerate the length of the word itself and the idea of the size of the words being feared. The word consists of 36 letters.\n\nNoun\nhippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (uncountable)\n\nUsage notes\nIt is unlikely that this 15-syllable contrivance is ever used purely for its meaning. The term sesquipedalophobia is recognized in formal writing, while the four-syllable phrase "fear of long words" is certainly worth considering. \nIn the book Useless Knowledge, this enormous word was misinterpreted by the authors as two words, causing them to list the fear of long words as the following: \n   hippopotomonstroses\n   quippedaliophobia\n\nTranslations\nGerman: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie\nSpanish: hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia
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fluctuat nec mergitur :"tossed by the waves, she does not sink." motto of the city of Paris.\nBrevior saltare : "Life is too short to dance with ugly women"\nThere is also : "Brevior fuckare c... um deformibus mulieribus est vita."\nNeed a translation ? Of course those idiots on Yahoo suppressed the Latin word c.u.m. because  they are ignorant and they do  not know the meaning.  In Latin, c.u.m. means "with"
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I think that person means herculoids?>\n\nhttp://toynami.com/herculoids.html
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It's an Id monster. \nRefer to old sci-fi movie "Forbidden Planet". The two are identical.
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I guess to be "eel-like" having no legs, being aquatic and posses functional or vestigial or reduced fins. Lamprey move by moving their bodies back and forth, to create propulsin, this is undulatory. Sinusoidal movement is what snakes use, it is side to side "S" movements, where as eels and lamprey use more of an up and down movement, like a mountain chain (several mountains side by side) they say the undulating mountains.\n\nhope this helps!
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I hope you weren't called that, 'cause it means in love with yourself. It's basically extreme vanity and an inflated ego.\n\nNarcissus was a mythical Greek god [or perhaps just a man, I can't remember] who fell in love with his own reflection in the smooth surface of a pond. What a freak.