Word Meanings - SAUROID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like or pertaining to the saurians. Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.

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• SAUROID
  Like or pertaining to the saurians. Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• SAURIAN
  Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria. -- n.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• SAUROIDICHNITE
  The fossil track of a saurian.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• PLESIOSAURIAN
  A plesiosaur.
• PTEROSAURIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Pterosauria.
• ICHTHYOSAURIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria. -- n.
• MOSASAUR; MOSASAURIAN
  One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.
• SEA SAURIAN
  Any marine saurian; esp. the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera.
• ENALIOSAURIAN
  Pertaining to the Enaliosauria. -- n.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.