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SUBCLASS LEPIDOSAURIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Diapsid reptiles: lizards; snakes; tuataras
Synonyms:
Lepidosauria; subclass Lepidosauria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("subclass Lepidosauria" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "subclass Lepidosauria"):
order Rhynchocephalia; Rhynchocephalia (tuataras; extinct forms from middle Triassic)
order Squamata; Squamata (diapsid reptiles: snakes and lizards)
Holonyms ("subclass 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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