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Angular
noun · 78% connection
A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Artichoke
noun · 78% connection
The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Articulary
noun · 78% connection
A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Cloaca
noun · 78% connection
The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Embiotocoid
noun · 78% connection
One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Exfoliate
verb · 78% connection
To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
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: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Ganoidei
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Ganoine
noun · 78% connection
shiny substance that resemble enamel and is secreted by the corium of certain fishes (especially ganoid fishes) and composes the outer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
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: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Hyomandibular
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
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: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Imbricated
adjective · 78% connection
Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Kingfisher
noun · 78% connection
Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidae. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Lagena
noun · 78% connection
The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
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: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
Loral
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, said, certain, scales, reptiles.
