AMNIOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amniota mean? 

• AMNIOTA (noun)
  The noun AMNIOTA has 1 sense:

1. higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development

  Familiarity information: AMNIOTA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMNIOTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

Meronyms (members of "Amniota"):

amniote (any member of the Amniota)

Domain category:

mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

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

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)