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sauroid, a. and n.|ˈsɔːrɔɪd|
[a. F. sauroïde (Agassiz), ad. Gr. σαυροειδής like a lizard, f. σαῦρο-ς lizard + -ειδής: see -oid.]
A. adj.
1. Resembling a saurian or lizard; a distinctive epithet of an order of fishes (mod.L. Sauroidei).
1836Buckland Geol. & Min. xiv. §13 (1837) I. 274 M. Agassiz has already ascertained seventeen genera of Sauroid Fishes. 1849–52Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 881/1 It is in this..that the Sphyrænoid fishes..approach the Sauroid type. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 363 An Enaliosaur,—a marine reptile of large size, of sauroid figure. 1875J. Croll Climate & T. xviii. 304 The corals and huge sauroid reptiles which then inhabited our waters.
2. Path. Akin to sauriosis.
1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 742 In parts the eruption may be called sauroid, said to have come after scarlatina.
B. n.
1. A sauroid fish.
1836Buckland Geol. & Min. xiv. §13 (1837) I. 282 note, The Pycnodonts, as well as the fossil Sauroids, have enamelled scales. 1857Agassiz Contrib. Nat. Hist. U.S. I. 187 Ganoids; with three orders, Cœlacanths, Acipenseroids, and Sauroids.
2. An animal belonging to the Sauroidea, the second of the three primary groups of Vertebrata in Huxley's earlier classification; afterwards named by him Sauropsida.
1863Huxley Elem. Comp. Anat. v. (1864) 74 The Vertebrata are capable of being grouped into three provinces: (I.) the Ichthyoids..(II.) the Sauroids..; and (III.) the Mammals. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 750/2. 1886 Ibid. XX. 437/2.
Hence sauˈroidal a. (rare) = sauroid a. 1.
1858Geikie Hist. Boulder v. 63 The massive bone-covered sauroidal fish. |