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Alligator
noun · 78% connection
either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Amphibious
adjective · 78% connection
Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Cheirotherium
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Chelonia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Clidastes
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Dicynodont
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Dinosaur
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Dinosauria
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike chara…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Enaliosauria
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Eosaurus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Exoskeleton
noun · 78% connection
The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Herpetology
noun · 78% connection
The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Ichthyosauria
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extinct order of marine reptiles, including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms; -- called also Ichthyopterygia. They have not been foun…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Ichthyosaurus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, v…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Kind
adjective · 78% connection
Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Labyrinthodonta
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Lizard
noun · 78% connection
Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
Loricate
noun · 78% connection
An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, reptiles, including, crocodiles, gavials.
