English Explanatory Dictionary

temnospondyl

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of many extinct primitive amphibians (labyrinthodonts) of the order Temnospondyli, from the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods.

Word forms

temnospondyl temnospondyls

Etymology

From translingual Temnospondyli, from Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”) + σπόνδυλος (spóndulos), Ionic/Attic form of σφόνδυλος (sphóndulos, “vertebra”).

Related words

lepospondyl stereospondyl
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