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sphenodons

sphenodons is the plural of sphenodon.

Meaning of sphenodon

Noun

sphenodon (plural sphenodons)

  1. The tuatara.
    • In New Zealand the dinosaurs had perished 65 million years before, as they had elsewhere on the globe; but the sphenodons or tuataras who had been their contemporaries from Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain obscure.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 4
  2. Any of the other extinct reptiles of the Sphenodontidae family.

Questions about sphenodons

What is sphenodons the plural of?
Sphenodons is the plural of sphenodon.

Words near sphenodons in the dictionary

  1. sphenocephalic
  2. sphenocephaly
  3. sphenochasm
  4. sphenocorona
  5. sphenodon
  6. sphenodons
  7. sphenodont
  8. sphenodontian
  9. sphenodontians
  10. sphenodontid
  11. sphenodontids

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