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    SYNAPSIDA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Extinct reptiles of the Permian to Jurassic considered ancestral to mammalsplay

    Synonyms:

    subclass Synapsida; Synapsida

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Synapsida"):

    order Therapsida; Therapsida (extinct mammal-like reptiles found inhabiting all continents from the mid Permian to late Triassic)

    Ictodosauria; order Ictodosauria (extinct reptiles of the later Triassic period)

    order Pelycosauria; Pelycosauria (edaphosaurus; dimetrodon)

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

    class Reptilia; Reptilia (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 animals)

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