Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Placodermi

Placodermi , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek pla`x, plako`s, a tablet + de`rma skin.]

(Paleontology) An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.