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SAURIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sauria mean? 

SAURIA (noun)
  The noun SAURIA has 1 sense:

1. true lizards; including chameleons and geckosplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SAURIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

True lizards; including chameleons and geckos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Lacertilia; Sauria; suborder Lacertilia; suborder Sauria

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Sauria"):

family Teiidae; Teiidae (whiptails; etc.)

family Varanidae; Varanidae (monitor lizards)

Chamaeleonidae; Chamaeleontidae; family Chamaeleonidae; family Chamaeleontidae; family Rhiptoglossa; Rhiptoglossa (Old World chameleons; in some classifications they are considered a superfamily of Sauria)

family Lacertidae; Lacertidae (Old World lizards)

family Helodermatidae; Helodermatidae (only known venomous lizards)

family Lanthanotidae; Lanthanotidae (stout-bodied lizards)

Anniellidae; family Anniellidae (legless lizards)

family Xenosauridae; Xenosauridae (monotypic family of Mexican lizards)

Anguidae; family Anguidae (alligator lizards)

Agamidae; family Agamidae (an Old World reptile family of Sauria)

Cordylidae; family Cordylidae (small family of spiny ovoviviparous African lizards)

family Scincidae; Scincidae (skinks)

family Xantusiidae; Xantusiidae (night lizards)

Amphisbaenidae; family Amphisbaenidae (worm lizards)

family Iguania; family Iguanidae; Iguania; Iguanidae (New World lizards)

family Pygopodidae; Pygopodidae (Australian and Tasmanian lizards)

family Gekkonidae; Gekkonidae (geckos)

saurian (any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs)

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

order Squamata; Squamata (diapsid reptiles: snakes and lizards)

Derivation:

saurian (of or relating to lizards)


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