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CLASS REPTILIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
class Reptilia; Reptilia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Reptilia" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class Reptilia"):
reptile; reptilian (any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms)
Anapsida; subclass Anapsida (oldest known reptiles; turtles and extinct Permian forms)
Lepidosauria; subclass Lepidosauria (diapsid reptiles: lizards; snakes; tuataras)
Archosauria; subclass Archosauria (a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts)
subclass Synapsida; Synapsida (extinct reptiles of the Permian to Jurassic considered ancestral to mammals)
Holonyms ("class Reptilia" is a member of...):
Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)
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