Dictionary entry

Labyrinthodon

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lab′y‐rin″tho‐don (?), n. [Gr. λαβύρινθοσ labyrinth + οδοὔσ, οδὄντοσ, tooth.] (Paleon.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.