单词 | sauria |
释义 | Saurian. Zoology. With singular agreement: an order or suborder of reptiles, originally comprising lizards and crocodiles, but later redefined, usually by restriction to the lizards alone. With plural agreement: members of this group collectively.The paraphyletic suborder that comprises the lizards is now more commonly called Lacertilia. Later writers have also used the name Sauria variously for groups including both lizards and snakes, or for a large clade encompassing lizards, crocodiles, and all the descendants of their common ancestor (including dinosaurs and birds). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria Sauria1803 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] Sauria1803 lacertian1822 lacertilian1845 1803 Brit. Critic Feb. 131 The tortoise, lizard, snake, and frog, furnish the characters for his four orders of reptiles, under the titles, Chelonia, Sauria, Ophidia, and Batrachia. 1825 Ann. Philos. New Ser. 10 384 As no correct description of the anatomical structure of the Saurii has ever been given to the public, I shall offer a brief outline of these organs in the crocodilus lucius. 1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions iii. §5. 261 And equally differ from the vertebræ of the Iguanæ, Monitors, and all existing Sauria. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 420 In the Saurii the so-called ‘crural pores’ lead into glands, which look like compound tubes, and which secrete cells which harden and fill up the lumen of the glands. 1903 G. R. Leighton Life-hist. Brit. Lizards ii. 9 The Sauria are the most recently developed reptiles, and include both the Ophidia or Serpents and the Lacertilia or Lizards. 1995 C. Mattison Encycl. Snakes i. 9 This order [sc. Squamata] is divided into three suborders: Ophidia, containing the snakes, Sauria, containing the lizards, and the Amphisbaenia. 2019 H.-D. Sues Rise Reptiles iv. 42/2 The currently known fossil record of Sauria dates back to the late Permian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1803 |
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