sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
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Prototherian
primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea
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primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
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Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archos…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion
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extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several allied species of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a k…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the fam…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcup…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, G…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.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: primitive, oviparous, mammals, found, australia.
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