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- Ancient Greek · derived fromπέλυξ“bowl, axe”
- English todaypelycosaur
Ancient Greek πέλυξ (pélux, “bowl, axe”) and σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pelycosaur
Today it means: Any of a group of basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsid amniotes, part of a polyphyletic grade, formerly regarded as order Pelycosauria. Full definition →
Ancient Greek πέλυξ