| NOUN | animal | diapsid reptile, diapsid | reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye |
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| Meaning | reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye. | |
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| Synonym | diapsid | |
| Narrower | archosaur, archosaurian, archosaurian reptile | Extinct reptiles including |
| crocodilian reptile, crocodilian | extant archosaurian reptile | |
| saurian | Any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards | |
| snake, serpent, ophidian | limbless scaly elongate reptile | |
| tuatara, Sphenodon punctatum | Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand | |
| Broader | reptile, reptilian | Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms |
| Opposite | anapsid, anapsid reptile | Primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull |
| Spanish | diapsid, diápsido | |
| Catalan | diàpsid | |
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