Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a saurian in general; having characters of or some affinity with reptiles; reptilian; sauropsidan, as a vertebrate; pertaining to the Sauroidei, as a fish.
- noun One of a family of ganoid fishes including the lepidosteids and various extinct forms; a member of the Sauroidei: as, “the sauroids and sharks,”
- noun A member of the Sauropsida.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like or pertaining to the saurians.
- adjective Resembling a saurian superficially.
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- adjective zoology Resembling or relating to the
saurians .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sulu had never seen a Gorn except from the air, and he tried to keep himself from staring too openly at the sauroid aliens.
The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002
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Sulu had never seen a Gorn except from the air, and he tried to keep himself from staring too openly at the sauroid aliens.
The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002
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Sulu had never seen a Gorn except from the air, and he tried to keep himself from staring too openly at the sauroid aliens.
The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002
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The sauroid fishes of the past geological ages are an example of this kind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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Thus, "among reptiles, the tortoises seem to have borrowed from birds some of their characteristic features of organisation; and among the sauroid fishes the piscine type seems to have been influenced by the type from which reptiles are derived" (p. 479).
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Connecticut footsteps were made by very ornithic reptiles, or extremely sauroid birds.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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It is supposed that this harmless sauroid extends this frill to frighten away its enemies; as old ladies, who can preserve their presence of mind in the neighbourhood of a bull, open their umbrella to frighten it into an opposite direction.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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Some of the fishes are of a sauroid character, that is, partake of the nature of the lizard, a genus of the reptilia, a land class of animals, so that we may be said here to have the first approach to a kind of animals calculated to breathe the atmosphere.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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The beds of chalk which contain two of these sauroid fishes and gigantic reptiles, and a whole extinct world of corals and muscles, have been proved by Ehrenberg's beautiful discoveries to consist of microscopic Polythalamia, many of which still exist in our seas, and in the middle latitudes of the
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Needless to say, they are losing the war against the sauroid aliens, the Posleen.
SFFaudio 2010
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