单词 | sauroid |
释义 | sauroidadj.n. A. adj. 1. Resembling a saurian or lizard; a distinctive epithet of an order of fishes (modern Latin Sauroidei). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > resembling a lizard sauroid1836 sauroidal1858 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [adjective] lacertian1822 lacertine1825 saurousa1836 sauroid1836 1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xiv. 274 M. Agassiz has already ascertained seventeen genera of Sauroid Fishes. 1849 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. 881/1 It is in this..that the Sphyrænoid fishes..approach the Sauroid type. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 363 An Enaliosaur,—a marine reptile of large size, of sauroid figure. 1875 J. Croll Climate & Time xviii. 304 The corals and huge sauroid reptiles which then inhabited our waters. 2. Pathology. Akin to sauriosis. ΚΠ 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 742 In parts the eruption may be called sauroid, said to have come after scarlatina. B. n. 1. A sauroid fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > [noun] > superorder Ganoidei > miscellaneous fossil types pycnodont1836 sauroid1836 Cephalaspis1842 buckler-head1847 Pteraspis1857 lepidoganoid1861 coccosteid1863 1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xiv. 282 (note) The Pycnodonts, as well as the fossil Sauroids, have enamelled scales. 1857 L. J. R. Agassiz Contrib. Nat. Hist. U.S.A. I. 187 Ganoids; with three orders, Cœlacanths, Acipenseroids, and Sauroids. 2. An animal belonging to the Sauroidea, the second of the three primary groups of Vertebrata in Huxley's earlier classification; afterwards named by him Sauropsida n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > vertebrates > [noun] > Sauropsid(a) > member of sauroid1863 sauropsidan1864 1863 T. H. Huxley Lect. Compar. Anat. (1864) v. 74 The Vertebrata are capable of being grouped into three provinces: (I.) the Ichthyoids..(II.) the Sauroids..; and (III.) the Mammals. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 750/2. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 437/2. Derivatives sauˈroidal adj. rare = A. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > resembling a lizard sauroid1836 sauroidal1858 1858 A. Geikie Story of Boulder v. 63 The massive bone-covered sauroidal fish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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