Saurian meaning

sôr'ē-ən
Any of various vertebrates of the group Sauria, which includes most of the diapsids, such as the dinosaurs, lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and birds. Sauria was formerly a suborder consisting of the lizards.
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Of, or having the characteristics of, lizards.
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A lizard or similar reptile.
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A reptile of the suborder Sauria; a lizard.
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Pertaining to the Sauria.
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Resembling a lizard.
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Origin of saurian

From New Latin Sauria former suborder name from saurus lizard from Greek sauros

Sentence Examples

  • j?-,, r r, , // Saurian to Crystalline Rocks Permian & Carboniferous ® Igneous Rocks Devonian 1 Jurassic Trsasiic have been described; but denudation has been carried further than in the western Alps, and accordingly the masses overlying the thrust-planes have been more completely removed (q.v.).

  • The faunal aspect of the Tertiary periods differs strikingly from that of preceding Secondary or Mesozoic; in place of the great saurian reptiles we find the rapid development and finally the maximum expansion of mammals.

  • saurian ancestors.

  • Some species still reportedly retain a visible ' tail ' although much atrophied from their supposedly extinct ' saurian ancestors.

  • Great quantities of large, well-preserved saurian fossils new to science were found in the Grentzbitumenzone.

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