sphenodon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The tuatara.
    — In New Zealand the dinosaurs had perished 65 million years before, as they had elsewhere on the globe; but the sphenodons or tuataras who had been their contemporaries from Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain obscure.
  2. Any of the other extinct reptiles of the Sphenodontidae family.

词形变化

sphenodons plural

词汇关系

相关词
sphenodont

词源

From the genus name Sphenodon.
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