Definition of Stereospondyli

1. Noun. Formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; amphibia having vertebrae whose component elements are fused into a single piece. "Most vertebrates are stereospondylous"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Stereospondyli

Stephen Spender
Stephen Vincent Benet
Stephen William Hawking
Stephens
Stephenson
Stephie
Stercorariidae
Stercorarius
Stercorarius parasiticus
Sterculia acerifolia
Sterculia apetala
Sterculia foetida
Sterculia rupestris
Sterculiaceae
Sterculius
Stereospondyli (current term)
Sterling
Sterna
Sterna hirundo
Sterne
Sternean
Sterninae
Sternotherus
Sterope
Stesichorus
Stetson
Steuben
Steve
Steve Martin
Steve Reich

Literary usage of Stereospondyli

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... curious "labyrinthine" infoldings of the enamel-wall of the teeth, was restricted to a single group or suborder (also called Stereospondyli) within the ..."

2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"... so that the operculum may have given rise to the tympanic membrane of Stereospondyli, which had the locus of the operculum mid was in contact with the ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... curious "labyrinthine" infoldings of the enamel-wall of the teeth, was restricted to a single group or suborder (also called Stereospondyli) within the ..."

4. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"Anterior nares far forwards. Teeth acutely conical, vertically grooved. Trias ; Australia and South Africa. Sub-Order D. Stereospondyli. Zittel. ..."

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