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    REPTILIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animalsplay

    Synonyms:

    class Reptilia; Reptilia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Reptilia" is a kind of...):

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "Reptilia"):

    reptile; reptilian (any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms)

    Anapsida; subclass Anapsida (oldest known reptiles; turtles and extinct Permian forms)

    Lepidosauria; subclass Lepidosauria (diapsid reptiles: lizards; snakes; tuataras)

    Archosauria; subclass Archosauria (a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts)

    subclass Synapsida; Synapsida (extinct reptiles of the Permian to Jurassic considered ancestral to mammals)

    Holonyms ("Reptilia" is a member of...):

    Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)

    Derivation:

    reptilian (of or relating to the class Reptilia)

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