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shinisaurid

shinisaurid noun: any lizard in the family Shinisauridae.

Noun

shinisaurid (plural shinisaurids)

  1. Any lizard in the family Shinisauridae.
    • Although present in most closely related anguids, this character is absent in platynotans with the exception of all shinisaurids, the monstersaurid Primaderma and the mosasaurid Dolichosaurus.2015 July 16, “Evidence of Egg Diversity in Squamate Evolution from Cretaceous Anguimorph Embryos”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of shinisaurid

pluralshinisaurids

Questions about shinisaurid

What does shinisaurid mean?
Shinisaurid means any lizard in the family Shinisauridae.
What part of speech is shinisaurid?
Shinisaurid is a noun.
What is the plural of shinisaurid?
The plural of shinisaurid is shinisaurids.

Words near shinisaurid in the dictionary

  1. shiningly
  2. shiningness
  3. shinings
  4. Shiniqua
  5. shinisaur
  6. shinisaurid
  7. shinisaurids
  8. shinisaurs
  9. shinjitai
  10. shinju
  11. Shinjuku

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