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anapsid

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a⋅nap⋅sid

  [uh-nap-sid]
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–adjective
1. belonging or pertaining to the Anapsida, a subclass of reptiles, extinct except for the turtles, characterized by having no opening in the temporal region of the skull.
–noun
2. a reptile of the subclass Anapsida.
Compare diapsid.

Origin:
1930–35; < NL Anapsida, equiv. to an- an- 1 + -apsida, pl. of -apsidum, neut. adj. deriv. of Gk apsís, hapsís loop, arch (referring to the opening in the skull); see apsis
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anapsid   (ə-nāp'sĭd)  Pronunciation Key 
A reptile having a skull with no temporal openings. The earliest reptiles, the cotylosaurs, were anapsids, as are modern turtles. Anapsids probably gave rise to the diapsids and synapsids. Compare diapsid, synapsid, therapsid.
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