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lepidosaurian

lepidosaurian noun: any member of the Lepidosauria.

Noun

lepidosaurian (plural lepidosaurians)

  1. Any member of the Lepidosauria.
    • Additionally, some 143 studies utilized vertebrates as study organisms, with 30% evaluating lepidosaurians (i.e., snakes, lizards, amphisbaenians, Tuatara), whereas another 30% assessed amphibians.2016 January 28, “Deconstructing a Species-Complex: Geometric Morphometric and Molecular Analyses Define Species in the Western Rattlesnake ( Crotalus viridis )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of lepidosaurian

plurallepidosaurians

Questions about lepidosaurian

What does lepidosaurian mean?
Lepidosaurian means any member of the Lepidosauria.
What part of speech is lepidosaurian?
Lepidosaurian is a noun.
What is the plural of lepidosaurian?
The plural of lepidosaurian is lepidosaurians.

Words near lepidosaurian in the dictionary

  1. lepidopterophobia
  2. lepidopterous
  3. lepidopters
  4. lepidoptery
  5. lepidosaur
  6. lepidosaurian
  7. lepidosaurians
  8. lepidosaurid
  9. lepidosaurids
  10. lepidosauromorph
  11. lepidosauromorphs

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