REPTILIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Reptilia mean?
• REPTILIA (noun)
The noun REPTILIA has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: REPTILIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REPTILIA (noun)
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 animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
class Reptilia; Reptilia
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; 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)
