LABYRINTHODONTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Labyrinthodonta mean? 

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

1. extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABYRINTHODONTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Labyrinthodonta; Labyrinthodontia; superorder Labyrinthodonta; superorder Labyrinthodontia

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Labyrinthodonta"):

labyrinthodont (an amphibian of the superorder Labyrinthodontia)

order Stereospondyli; Stereospondyli (formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; amphibia having vertebrae whose component elements are fused into a single piece)

order Temnospondyli; Temnospondyli (formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; large Carboniferous and Permian amphibians having vertebrae in which some elements remain separate)

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

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