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sordes
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sordes [ˈsɔːdiːz]
pl n
(Medicine) Med dark incrustations on the lips and teeth of patients with prolonged fever
[from Latin sordēs filth]


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The Asian species bears the name Sordes pilosus, or "hairy devil," because parts of its wings had small wavy fibers, which Soviet paleontologists interpreted as fur when they first described the animal in 1971.
 
 
 
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