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Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Biology
noun · 78% connection
The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Ceratodus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discov…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Cetacea
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Crane
noun · 78% connection
A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Crinoidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Elephant
noun · 78% connection
A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are know…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Eurypteroidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Eurypterus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Ginglymodi
noun · 78% connection
An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocerc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Grunt
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Inoceramus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve shells,allied to the mussels. The genus is characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Jacamar
noun · 78% connection
Any one of numerous species of tropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Lark
noun · 78% connection
Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Larvalia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Lepidodendron
noun · 78% connection
A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Limulus
noun · 78% connection
The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
Lorikeet
noun · 78% connection
Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, wit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, merostomata, including, living, animals.
