ARCHOSAURIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Archosauria mean? 

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

1. a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHOSAURIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Archosauria; subclass Archosauria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Archosauria"):

archosaur; archosaurian; archosaurian reptile (extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts)

genus Saurosuchus; Saurosuchus; genus Proterochampsa; Proterochampsa (early archosaurian carnivore)

Crocodilia; Crocodylia; order Crocodilia; order Crocodylia (crocodiles; alligators; caimans; gavials)

order Ornithischia; Ornithischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods))

order Saurischia; Saurischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles: theropods (carnivorous); sauropods (herbivorous))

order Pterosauria; Pterosauria (extinct flying reptiles: pterosaurs)

order Thecodontia; Thecodontia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic)

Ichthyosauria; order Ichthyosauria (extinct marine reptiles: ichthyosaurs)

order Sauropterygia; Sauropterygia (extinct marine reptiles: plesiosaurs; nothosaurs)

Holonyms ("Archosauria" 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)