order sauropterygia

1. 1.

   extinct marine reptiles: plesiosaurs; nothosaurs

   SynonymsSauropterygia

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofArchosauria

Questions about order sauropterygia

What does order sauropterygia mean?

order sauropterygia means "extinct marine reptiles: plesiosaurs; nothosaurs".

What is another word for order sauropterygia?

Close synonyms include Sauropterygia. 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 order sauropterygia a common word?

order sauropterygia 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.