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SUBORDER SAUROPODOMORPHA

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Meaning:

Gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having huge bodies with long necks and small heads: Prosauropoda and Sauropoda (apatosaurus, diplodocus and titanosaurs)

Synonyms:

Sauropodomorpha; suborder Sauropodomorpha

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("suborder Sauropodomorpha" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "suborder Sauropodomorpha"):

Prosauropoda; suborder Prosauropoda (the earliest known dinosaurs)

Sauropoda; suborder Sauropoda (any of the sauropod dinosaurs)

suborder Theropoda; Theropoda (carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs; Jurassic and Cretaceous)

Holonyms ("suborder Sauropodomorpha" is a member of...):

order Saurischia; Saurischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles: theropods (carnivorous); sauropods (herbivorous))

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