|
|
Definition of Tuatera
1. n. See Hatteria.
Definition of Tuatera
1. tuatara [n -S] - See also: tuatara
Medical Definition of Tuatera
1.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuatera
Literary usage of Tuatera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"THE tuatera That singular reptile found on certain small islands lying to the
north-east of New Zealand, and known as the ..."
2. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1869)
"The food of the tuatera appears to consist of young birds, as the remains ...
The tuatera is remarkable for a very highly developed arrangement of abdominal ..."
3. Nature Readers: Sea-side and Way-side. No. 4 by Julia McNair Wright (1896)
"Does the tuatera merit their aversion? Not at all. It is not handsome, some call
it exceedingly unpleasing in appearance, but no creature is so absolutely ..."
4. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"The New Zealand tuatera (47) is the sole surviver of a Triassic and Permian group,
which is the most generalised of all Reptiles. ..."
5. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"THE tuatera The tuatera of New Zealand might aptly be termed "a living fossil,"
for it is the sole representative of an ancient group of reptiles which ..."
6. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"Among living reptiles it is only the most primitive types, such as the lizards,
snakes, and the tuatera, which have teeth on the palatal bones, ..."
Other Resources:
