Usually means: Scales found on cartilaginous fish.
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  1. placoid: Merriam-Webster
  2. placoid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. placoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. placoid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. placoid: Vocabulary.com
  6. placoid: Wordnik
  7. placoid: Wiktionary
  8. placoid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. placoid: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Placoid, placoid: Dictionary.com
  11. Placoid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. placoid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. placoid: Rhymezone
  14. Placoid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. placoid: FreeDictionary.org
  16. placoid: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. placoid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. placoid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. placoid: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (placoid)

adjective:  Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoid fish
noun:  Such a scale
noun:  Any fish having placoid scales, such as the sharks
noun:  A placodioid lichen

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