hatteria
hatteria noun: the tuatara.
Noun
hatteria (plural hatterias)
- The tuatara.
- The skull of the hatteria is more like that of a crocodile than like that of any other reptile; but on the other hand its legs are like those of the lizard […]1891, Julia McNair Wright, Nature Readers: Sea-side and Way-side, number 4, page 163
- A Red-breasted Water lizard, appropriately christened “Robin,” seemed more especially to excite its ire in the vain pursuit of which the hatteria would rush out from its lair with angry gruntings whenever that lizard chanced to trespass too closely […]1902, Animal Life and the World of Nature
Forms of hatteria
| plural | hatterias |
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Origin of hatteria
From obsolete translingual Hatteria, which was a genus proposed in 1842 and later rejected.
Words that rhyme with hatteria
- hysteria
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- apteria
- archaebacteria
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Questions about hatteria
- What does hatteria mean?
- Hatteria means the tuatara.
- What part of speech is hatteria?
- Hatteria is a noun.
- What is the plural of hatteria?
- The plural of hatteria is hatterias.
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