diapsid reptile

Questions about diapsid reptile

What does diapsid reptile mean?

diapsid reptile means "reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye".

What is another word for diapsid reptile?

Close synonyms include diapsid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diapsid reptile a common word?

diapsid reptile is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.