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LEPIDOSAURIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Diapsid reptiles: lizards; snakes; tuataras

Synonyms:

Lepidosauria; subclass Lepidosauria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Lepidosauria" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Lepidosauria"):

order Rhynchocephalia; Rhynchocephalia (tuataras; extinct forms from middle Triassic)

order Squamata; Squamata (diapsid reptiles: snakes and lizards)

Holonyms ("Lepidosauria" is a member of...):

class Reptilia; Reptilia (class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals)

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