LEPIDOSAURIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lepidosauria mean? 

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

1. diapsid reptiles: lizards; snakes; tuataras

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEPIDOSAURIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diapsid reptiles: lizards; snakes; tuataras

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Lepidosauria; subclass Lepidosauria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Lepidosauria"):

order Rhynchocephalia; Rhynchocephalia (tuataras; extinct forms from middle Triassic)

order Squamata; Squamata (diapsid reptiles: snakes and lizards)

Holonyms ("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)