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Definition of Amniota
1. Noun. Higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development.
Generic synonyms: Craniate, Vertebrate
Member holonyms: Amniote
Category relationships: Mammal, Mammalian
Definition of Amniota
1. n. pl. That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.
Definition of Amniota
1. Noun. (biology) The reptiles, birds and mammals, collectively, all of which have an amnion during development. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Amniota
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amniota
Literary usage of Amniota
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1881)
"... the amniota, but present in the larvae of all other forms. This coincidence,
on the principles already laid down in a previous chapter on larval forms, ..."
2. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"Chief Group of the Amnion Animals, or amniota (Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals).—Descent
of all the amniota from a Common Lizard-like Parent-form ..."
3. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker (1897)
"... which somewhat resembles that of the formation of a decidua in placental
Mammals (p. 340). II. amniota. In all the amniota, as already mentioned (pp. ..."
4. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"Branchial Clefts, and Palate of the amniota. § 410. In the amniota, also, the
arrangement which has been transmitted from their ..."
5. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1879)
"Chief Group of the Amnion Animals, or amniota (Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals).—Descent
of all the amniota from a Common Lizard-like Parent-form ..."
6. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"amniota. Vertebrates with amnion and allantois (p. 490) in embryonic life; with
the pro- and mesonephros functional only in the embryos, and replaced in the ..."
7. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1892)
"... AND PHALANGEAL VARIATION IN THE amniota. By GB HOWES, Assistant Professor of
Zoology, Royal Coll. Sci. Lond., and JP HILL. I. Special. ..."
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