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shinisaurids

shinisaurids is the plural of shinisaurid.

Meaning of shinisaurid

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

Questions about shinisaurids

What is shinisaurids the plural of?
Shinisaurids is the plural of shinisaurid.

Words near shinisaurids in the dictionary

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

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