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Definition of Amniotes
1. amniote [n] - See also: amniote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amniotes
Literary usage of Amniotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1910)
"All the amniotes known to us—all Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals (including man)—agree
in so many important points of internal structure and development that ..."
2. The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1900)
"With the inheritance of these protective coverings are closely connected two
other changes in the amniotes: firstly, the entire disappearance of the gills ..."
3. An Easy Outline of Evolution by Dennis Hird (1903)
"found in reptiles, birds, and mammals, and so all these animals can be classed
together as amniotes. But Haeckel shall first tell us of this. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"The first two occur in all vertebrates, the third in amniotes only. The pronephros
is purely an embryonic structure except in ..."
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