stereospondyl

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noun

Any amphibian of the suborder Stereospondyli.

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Meanings

nounstereospondyl (plural stereospondyls)

plural stereospondyls

  1. biologyAny amphibian of the suborder Stereospondyli.

    The sequence of vertebral types led Watson to conclude that the primitive labyrinthodonts, embolomeres, had given rise to the rhachitomes and that these forms had eventually produced the ungainly, doomed stereospondyls.

    2005, Dev Raj Khanna, Biology of Amphibia, page 56
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