AMNIOTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amniote mean? 

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

1. any member of the Amniota

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMNIOTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any member of the Amniota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("amniote" 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 (parts of "amniote"):

amnion; amnios; amniotic sac (thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))

chorion (the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))

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

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

 Context examples 

The extraembryonic membranous sac surrounding the embryo of amniote vertebrates.

(Chorionic Sac, NCI Thesaurus)