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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD THERAPSID

From New Latin Therapsida, from Greek thēr beast + Latin apsis arch.
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PRONUNCIATION OF THERAPSID

therapsid  [θəˈræpsɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THERAPSID

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conjunction
determiner
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Therapsid 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 THERAPSID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

therapsid

Therapsida

Therapsida is a group of synapsids, and includes mammals and their ancestors. Many of the traits today seen as unique to mammals had their origin within early therapsids, including an erect posture. The earliest fossil attributed to Therapsida is Tetraceratops insignis from the Lower Permian. Therapsids evolved from pelycosaurs 275 million years ago. They replaced the pelycosaurs as the dominant large land animals in the Middle Permian and were replaced, in turn, by the archosauromorphs in the Triassic, although one group of therapsids, the kannemeyeriiforms, remained diverse in the Late Triassic. The therapsids included the cynodonts, the group that gave rise to mammals in the Late Triassic around 225 million years ago. Of the non-mammalian therapsids, only cynodonts and dicynodonts survived the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. The last of the non-mammalian therapsids, the tritylodontid cynodonts, became extinct in the Early Cretaceous, approximately 100 million years ago.

Definition of therapsid in the English dictionary

The definition of therapsid in the dictionary is any extinct reptile of the order Therapsida, of Permian to Triassic times: considered to be the ancestors of mammals.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THERAPSID


acid
ˈæsɪd
blessed
ˈblɛsɪd
capsid
ˈkæpsɪd
ceratopsid
ˌsɛrəˈtɒpsɪd
Cid
sɪd
cursed
ˈkɜːsɪd
cussed
ˈkʌsɪd
diapsid
daɪˈæpsɪd
dropsied
ˈdrɒpsɪd
fancied
ˈfænsɪd
flaccid
ˈflæksɪd
ichthyopsid
ˌɪkθɪˈɒpsɪd
inviscid
ɪnˈvɪsɪd
lucid
ˈluːsɪd
nucleocapsid
ˌnjuːklɪəʊˈkæpsɪd
placid
ˈplæsɪd
rancid
ˈrænsɪd
Seleucid
sɪˈluːsɪd
sphenopsid
sfɪˈnɒpsɪd
synapsid
sɪˈnæpsɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THERAPSID

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therapeusis
therapeutic
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therapeutic community
therapeutic touch
therapeutical
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therapeutist
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Theravada
therblig
there
there and then
there are no flies on him
there is no holding him
there is no knowing

WORDS THAT END LIKE THERAPSID

Abbasid
Chasid
Chassid
Cressid
Hasid
Hassid
jassid
mysid
psid
resid
ursid
vanessid

Synonyms and antonyms of therapsid in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «therapsid» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THERAPSID

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

Translator English - Chinese

therapsid
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

terápsido
570 millions of speakers

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therapsid
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

therapsid
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

therapsid
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

therapsid
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

terápsidos
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Translator English - Bengali

therapsid
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Translator English - French

thérapside
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Translator English - Malay

Therapsid
190 millions of speakers

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therapsid
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Translator English - Japanese

therapsid
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

therapsid
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Therapsid
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

therapsid
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

therapsid
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

थॉम्पियस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

therapsid
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

therapsid
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

therapsid
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

therapsid
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

therapsid
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

therapsid
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

therapsid
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

therapsid
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

therapsid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of therapsid

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THERAPSID»

The term «therapsid» is normally little used and occupies the 149.301 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THERAPSID» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THERAPSID»

Discover the use of therapsid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to therapsid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Origin of Mammals Based Upon Cranial Morphology of the ...
PROBLEMS OF THERAPSID PHYLOGENY SUMMARY OF OPINION Relatively few reports have dealt specifically with therapsid phylogeny, but many have mentioned probable group relationships. Broom and Watson have done the most in ...
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The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates
In the late Permian, there was a “modern” faunal zonation of large vertebrates, with endothermic therapsids and some big ectotherms in the Tropics giving way to an all-endothermic therapsid fauna in the cold south. In the earliest therapsid ...
Keith M. Parsons, 2004
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Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods: Controversy and ...
This interpretation of the therapsid fossil record, taken in conjunction with earlier studies by Simpson (1928, 1929) on Mesozoic mammals, which indicated that several major groups of early mammals showed no convergence at their bases, ...
Hans-Peter Schultze, Linda Trueb, 1991
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The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across ...
The therapsid carnivores were probably heavily dependent on the rhynchosaur and nonmam- malian therapsid herbivore complex and did not have the locomotor capacity to run down ornithis- chians in savannah-like settings or the size to ...
Kevin Padian, 1988
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The Non-Therapsid Reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, Chin
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Edward G. Editor Nash, David J. 1931- Simmons, 2011
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The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia
Since the deposits at Mylva are separated from those at Inta and Us'va by at least 15 million years (Figure 2.2), the Mylva bolosaur should not be recognized as part of the Inta assemblage. The earliest records of therapsid faunas (Early Kazan!
Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, 2003
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The Non-Therapsid Reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China
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Mike Simmons, Simmons, Milagros, 2010
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The Design of Life
There are numerous therapsid species in the fossil record. In fact, according to Douglas Futuyma, “The gradual transition from therapsid reptiles to mammals is so abundantly documented by scores of species in every stage of transition that it  ...
William A Dembski, Jonathan Wells, 2008
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Review of the Pelycosauria
more typical pelycosaurs; in others, however, it is depicted with a subquadrate contour. The therapsid tarsus is readily derivable from that of the more advanced pelycosaurs, although the fact that known specimens are few in number and ...
10
The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs
The therapsid predator-prey ratios, although much lower than those of ectotherms, are still about three times higher than those of advanced mammals today. Such ratios indicate that the therapsids achieved endothermy with a moderately high ...
Gregory Paul, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THERAPSID»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term therapsid is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ancient Plant Eating Cousins From Brazil and South Africa Are …
Ancestral lineages of mammals were included in a group known as therapsids that flourished during the Permian, which predated the age of dinosaurs, and are ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
2
Neutrons show that 260 million years ago the Pristerodon could …
Up to now it was unresolved whether the forerunners of mammals, the therapsids, already possessed an eardrum and an impedance matching middle ear to ... «Cordis News, Jul 15»
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Neutron tomography shows that the Pristerodon adapted to hear …
A) Skull of the therapsid Pristerodon; B) Image obtained from neutron tomographic data. Credit: Image courtesy of the author. A recent study by means of neutron ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
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Why South Africa's Karoo is a palaeontological wonderland
The 400,000 sq km area is internationally noted for its record of fossil therapsid “mammal-like” reptiles. These chart anatomical changes on the path to mammals ... «The Conversation US, Jun 15»
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Pinworm plagued prehistoric proto-mammals
Most recently, a 240 million year old nematode parasite egg was discovered in a coprolite thought to originate from prehistoric therapsid vertebrates called ... «BMC Pediatrics, Mar 15»
6
Your Inner Fish … An engaging look at our vertebrate ancestry
He shows us the complete skull of a Gorgonopsid, a late therapsid from the Permian era, some 270 million years ago. It is a remarkable skull, exhibiting massive ... «World Socialist Web Site, Apr 14»
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Triassic Period Facts: Climate, Animals & Plants
Two groups of animals survived the Permian Extinction: Therapsids, which were mammal-like reptiles, and the more reptilian Archosaurs. In the early Triassic, ... «LiveScience.com, Feb 14»
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10 ways porn perpetuates myths about men and sex
... momentum spontaneously cause her to travel back to the Triassic period to bring back a tooth from a Therapsid with which to conquer our reptilian overlords in ... «Salon, Jan 14»
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Tracing large tetrapod burrows from the Permian of Nei Mongol, China
These burrows are identified as the production of dicynodonts, cynodonts, therocephalians, therapsid or mammals, procolophon, archosaurs or turtles, although ... «Phys.Org, Dec 13»
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Odd Couple: 250 Million Years Ago A Mammal Forerunner And An …
... Carlson KJ, Cook DC, Rubidge BS, et al. (2013) Synchrotron Reveals Early Triassic Odd Couple: Injured Amphibian and Aestivating Therapsid Share Burrow. «Science 2.0, Jun 13»

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