CAUDATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caudata mean? 

• CAUDATA (noun)
  The noun CAUDATA has 1 sense:

1. salamanders; newts; congo snakes

  Familiarity information: CAUDATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUDATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Salamanders; newts; congo snakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Caudata; order Caudata; order Urodella; Urodella

Hypernyms ("Caudata" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Caudata"):

caudate; urodele (amphibians that resemble lizards)

family Salamandridae; Salamandridae (salamanders)

Ambystomatidae; family Ambystomatidae (New World salamanders)

Cryptobranchidae; family Cryptobranchidae (large aquatic salamanders: hellbenders; giant salamanders)

family Proteidae; Proteidae (mud puppies)

Dicamptodontidae; family Dicamptodontidae (large and small highly aquatic salamanders)

family Plethodontidae; Plethodontidae (small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults)

Amphiumidae; family Amphiumidae (congo snakes)

family Sirenidae; Sirenidae (sirens)

Holonyms ("Caudata" is a member of...):

amphibia; class Amphibia (the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians)