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单词 sauroid
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sauroidadj.n.

/ˈsɔːrɔɪd/
Etymology: < French sauroïde (Agassiz), < Greek σαυροειδής like a lizard, < σαῦρος lizard + -ειδής : see -oid suffix.
A. adj.
1. Resembling a saurian or lizard; a distinctive epithet of an order of fishes (modern Latin Sauroidei).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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