AMNIOTA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Amniota mean? • AMNIOTA (noun)
The noun AMNIOTA has 1 sense:
1. higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development
Familiarity information: AMNIOTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AMNIOTA (noun)
Meaning:
Higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("Amniota" is a kind of...):
craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
Meronyms (members of "Amniota"):
amniote (any member of the Amniota)
Domain category:
mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)
Holonyms ("Amniota" is a member of...):
Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)
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