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Meaning of "archosaur" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ARCHOSAUR

archosaur  [ˈɑːkəˌsɔː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ARCHOSAUR

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Archosaur is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ARCHOSAUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Archosaur

Archosaurs are a group of diapsid amniotes whose living representatives consist of birds and crocodilians. This group also includes all extinct dinosaurs, extinct crocodilian relatives, and pterosaurs. Archosauria, the archosaur clade, is a crown group that includes the most recent common ancestor of living birds and crocodilians. It includes two main clades: Pseudosuchia, which includes crocodilians and their extinct relatives, and Avemetatarsalia, which includes birds and their extinct relatives.

Definition of archosaur in the English dictionary

The definition of archosaur in the dictionary is any of a group of reptiles consisting of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, modern birds, modern crocodiles and extinct relatives of crocodiles, all having a diapsid skull.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ARCHOSAUR


allosaur
ˈæləˌsɔː
apatosaur
əˈpætəˌsɔː
brontosaur
ˈbrɒntəˌsɔː
carnosaur
ˈkɑːnəˌsɔː
Chickasaw
ˈtʃɪkəˌsɔː
cotylosaur
ˈkɒtɪləˌsɔː
deinosaur
ˈdaɪnəˌsɔː
dinosaur
ˈdaɪnəˌsɔː
hadrosaur
ˈhædrəˌsɔː
ichthyosaur
ˈɪkθɪəˌsɔː
mosasaur
ˈməʊsəˌsɔː
plesiosaur
ˈpliːsɪəˌsɔː
pterosaur
ˈtɛrəˌsɔː
quartersaw
ˈkwɔːtəˌsɔː
stegosaur
ˈstɛɡəˌsɔː
teleosaur
ˈtɛlɪəˌsɔː
titanosaur
taɪˈtænəˌsɔː
tyrannosaur
tɪˈrænəˌsɔː
vavasor
ˈvævəˌsɔː
vavassor
ˈvævəˌsɔː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ARCHOSAUR

archivist
archivolt
archlet
archlute
archly
archness
archology
archon
archonship
archontate
archontic
archoplasm
archoplasmic
archosaurian
archpriest
archpriesthood
archpriestship
archrival
archway
archwise

WORDS THAT END LIKE ARCHOSAUR

ankylosaur
balisaur
baur
centaur
coelurosaur
daur
duck-billed dinosaur
elasmosaur
faur
gaur
Kaur
megalosaur
Minotaur
ornithosaur
pelycosaur
pliosaur
scaur
supersaur
waur
whaur

Synonyms and antonyms of archosaur in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «archosaur» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ARCHOSAUR

Find out the translation of archosaur to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of archosaur from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «archosaur» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

祖龙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arcosaurio
570 millions of speakers

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archosaur
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

archosaur
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

archosaur
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

архозавр
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Archosaur
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

archosaur
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

archosaure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Arkosaur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

archosaur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

祖竜
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

archosaur
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Archosaur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Archosaur
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

archosaur
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आर्कॉसॉर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

archosaur
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

archosaur
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

archosaur
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

архозаври
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

archosaur
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

archosaur
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

archosaur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

archosaur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

archosaur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of archosaur

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ARCHOSAUR»

The term «archosaur» is normally little used and occupies the 123.361 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ARCHOSAUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about archosaur

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARCHOSAUR»

Discover the use of archosaur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to archosaur and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Archosaur
This group also includes all extinct non-avian dinosaurs, many extinct crocodilian relatives, and pterosaurs. Archosauria, the archosaur clade, is a crown group that includes the most recent common ancestor of living birds and crocodilians.
Jesse Russel, Ronald Cohn, 2013
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Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System
Archosaur. Descendants. —. Crocodilia. and. Aves. (Birds). Except for the mammals and perhaps the turtles, the living derivatives of the stem reptiles can be regarded as descendants of diapsids. Modem diapsids almost all belong to one of ...
Geoffrey A. Manley, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, 2004
3
The Dinosauria: Second Edition
Given their archosaur affinities, it is almost certain that nonavian dinosaurs possessed some kind of heterogeneous, multicameral septate lung. However, nonavian dinosaurs lack the musculoskeletal attributes necessary for a level II inference ...
David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmólska, 2004
4
Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records: Implications ...
8; Table 4), ghost ranges were summed for substages, and compared with numbers of archosaur-bearing and tetrapod-bearing formations for those same substages (data from Benton et al. 2004; Sahney & Benton 2008; and unpublished).
Alistair McGowan, Andrew B. Smith, 2011
5
New Perspectives in Archosaur Biology
These works are packaged and produced by BiblioLabs under license by ProQuest UMI.
Amy E Harwell, 2011
6
Anatomy, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and ...
The cranial and mandibular osteology of a new rauisuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern Germany. Stuttgarter Beitraege zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologic und Palaeontologie), 280, 1—49. GOWER, D. J. 2000. Rauisuchian  ...
Sterling J. Nesbitt, Julia Brenda Desojo, Randall B. Irmis, 2013
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Computational Paleontology
Table 4.3 Results of the statistical test (Mann–Whitney U test) for comparisons of archosaur morphological rates across the Triassic Each test is a pairwise comparison of one time bin against another bin “U” refers to the test statistic and p to the ...
Ashraf M.T. Elewa, 2011
8
Prehistoric Reptiles: Archosaur, Longisquama, Protostegidae, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
LLC Books, Books Group, 2010
9
Archosaur Shoulder Mechanics and the Evolution of Avian Flight
Recent discovery of feathered dinosaurs and several dozen new genera of Mesozoic birds have fueled deep scientific interest in the evolution of avian flight.
David Bradley Baier, 2006
10
The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia
These three families became extinct at the time of, or soon after the 'main' archosaur radiation. This radiation of the crown-group, the Avesuchia, occurred in the Middle Triassic, with the appearance of proterochampsids, suchians ( sensu ...
Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARCHOSAUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term archosaur is used in the context of the following news items.
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Family protects fossils
Art Sahlestein along with his daughter Art Olivia stand on their land, the Arlington Archosaur Site, on Tuesday. Posted: Monday, June 8, 2015 ... «UTA The Shorthorn, Jun 15»
2
The Curse of the Horned Dinosaur Egg
Live birth isn't well supported for any archosaur. I suspect there is a taphonomic bias — we just haven't looked in the right places yet. Reply. «PLoS Blogs, Jun 15»
3
A team of scientists have engineered a chicken with a dinosaur's …
The results suggest that the pathways identified by the scientists evolved on one side of the archosaur family tree, but not the other, and that ... «Quartz, May 15»
4
Yi qi Is Neat But Might Not Have Been the Black Screaming Dino …
Because of their weirdness, there's been some minor effort to get scansoriopterygids placed outside of Theropoda in the archosaur tree ... «Scientific American, May 15»
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How we identified weird and wonderful 'Jurassic platypus' dinosaur
... 2587/3-1 to Richard Butler) and a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (PCIG14-GA-2013-630123 ARCHOSAUR RISE to Richard Butler). «The Conversation UK, Apr 15»
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An Exultation Of Egrets
#One set of studies looked at a host of fossil remains going back 230 million years, to the time of the archosaur ancestors who gave rise to ... «Payson Roundup, Mar 15»
7
Revelation's Plans for 2015 Revealed
The coming one is Ryongyon dungeon, which is about the Yellow Emperor and the secret of Archosaur. Besides, the development team will ... «MMORPG News, Feb 15»
8
Nundasuchus songeaensis: New Triassic Reptile Discovered in …
A team of paleontologists headed by Dr Sterling Nesbitt of Virginia Tech has described a new genus and species of archosaur that lived in what ... «Sci-News.com, Jan 15»
9
Today marks NINE YEARS of Tetrapod Zoology
... and the probable prevalence of sexual selection as a driving force in Mesozoic archosaur evolution. Tortoises, hornbills and amphisbaenians ... «Scientific American, Jan 15»
10
Birds gone wild
Researchers were also able to reconstruct about half of the archosaur genome based on what they found for birds and crocodilians. Compiled ... «The Indian Express, Dec 14»

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