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Anapsid

Definition: Anapsid

Anapsid

Noun

1. Primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles.

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Specialty Definition: Anapsid

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The anapsids are a group of amniotes, characterized by skulls without openings near the temples. The only extant members are the Testudines - turtles, tortoises, and terrapins. Various other groups, however, are known from Permian and Triassic fossils. The anapsids have traditionally been treated as a subclass of the class Reptilia, but as this group is paraphyletic they are sometimes placed in a separate class Anapsida.

Most of the anapsid orders, including groups the, millerettids, nyctiphrurets and pareiasaurs, were extincted in the late Permian period by the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Both the procolophonoids and some ancient ancestors of the testudines managed to survive into the Triassic, and the testidunes are the only surviving order.

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Introduction to Anapsida from UCMP

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Synonym: Anapsid

Synonym: anapsid reptile (n). (additional references)
Antonym: diapsid (n). (additional references)

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Expression: Anapsid

Expression using "anapsid": anapsid reptile. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Anapsid

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Anagrams: Anapsid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-n-p-s"

-1 letter: naiads, paisan, pandas.

-2 letters: apian, nadas, naiad, nipas, padis, pains, paisa, panda, pians, pinas, sapid.

-3 letters: aids, ains, anas, ands, anis, ansa, dais, daps, dins, dips, nada, naps, nipa, nips, padi, pads, paid, pain, pans, pian, pias, pina, pins, sadi, said, sain, sand, snap, snip, span, spin.

-4 letters: aas, ads, aid, ain, ais, ana.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-n-p-s"
 

+1 letter: daphnias, diapason, paladins, pintadas.

 

+2 letters: adaptions, aphidians, diapasons, handicaps, paganised, paranoids.

 

+3 letters: antipodals, diapausing, diaphanous, dipsomania, hispanidad, palisading, pasquinade, phantasied, sailplaned.

 

+4 letters: adaptations, adoptianism, anadiploses, anadiplosis, antipodeans, caparisoned, dipsomaniac, dipsomanias, disparaging, hispanidads, landscaping, landscapist, misadapting, pasquinaded, pasquinades, unaspirated.

 

+5 letters: adaptiveness, adoptianisms, cardinalship, depravations, diaphanously, dipsomaniacs, disappearing, endoparasite, guardianship, handicappers, imparadising, landscapists, madreporians, pasquinading, plantigrades, postprandial, propagandist, sandpainting, sandpapering, spearheading, standpattism.

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Alternative Orthography: Anapsid


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6E 61 70 73 69 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.    .-    .--.    ...    ..    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101110 01100001 01110000 01110011 01101001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

A n a p s i d

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006E 0061 0070 0073 0069 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35806782857570

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