diapsid

Meaning of diapsid

noun

a reptile of a large group characterized by the presence of two temporal openings in the skull, including the lizards, snakes, crocodiles, dinosaurs, and pterosaurs.

early 20th century: from modern Latin Diapsida, from di-1 ‘two’ + Greek apsis, apsid- ‘arch’.

Information about diapsid

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of diapsid is: diapsids.
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Hyphenation of diapsid

di-ap-sid

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
  • diapsid is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with diapsid

psid, anapsid, apsid, capsid, nucleocapsid, synapsid, therapsid, depsid, didepsid, sepsid, ceratopsid, eryopsid, ichthyopsid, liliopsid, magnoliopsid, phalaenopsid, sauropsid, sphenopsid

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