PELYCOSAURIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pelycosauria mean? 

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

1. edaphosaurus; dimetrodon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PELYCOSAURIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Edaphosaurus; dimetrodon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Pelycosauria; Pelycosauria

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Pelycosauria"):

pelycosaur (large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America)

Edaphosauridae; family Edaphosauridae (a family of reptiles of the order Pelycosauria)

genus Dimetrodon (a reptile genus of Pelycosauria)

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

subclass Synapsida; Synapsida (extinct reptiles of the Permian to Jurassic considered ancestral to mammals)