Loxomma

noun

Lox·​om·​ma

läkˈsämə

: a genus of primitive Permian labyrinthodont amphibians (order Rhachitomi) that are commonly considered remotely ancestral to the modern salientians and are found in the coal measures of England and Bohemia

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from lox- + -omma

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