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Acontias
noun · 78% connection
Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
Agama
noun · 78% connection
A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
Amphisbaena
noun · 78% connection
A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at ea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
Barracuda
noun · 78% connection
any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and lo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
Catamaran
noun · 78% connection
A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
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: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
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: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
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: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
Ctenophora
n. pl. · 78% connection
A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
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: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
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: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
Elasmosaurus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
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: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
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: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
Handsel
noun · 78% connection
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
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: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
Ichthyosaur
noun · 78% connection
any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
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: genus, extinct, marine, reptiles, allied.
