ANAPSIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anapsida mean? 

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

1. oldest known reptiles; turtles and extinct Permian forms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANAPSIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Oldest known reptiles; turtles and extinct Permian forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Anapsida; subclass Anapsida

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Anapsida"):

anapsid; anapsid reptile (primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles)

Chelonia; order Chelonia; order Testudinata; order Testudines; Testudinata; Testudines (tortoises and turtles)

Holonyms ("Anapsida" 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)