stereospondyl

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English

Noun

stereospondyl (plural stereospondyls)

  1. (zoology) Any amphibian of the suborder Stereospondyli.
    • 2005, Dev Raj Khanna, Biology of Amphibia, page 56:
      The sequence of vertebral types led Watson to conclude that the primitive labyrinthodonts, embolomeres, had given rise to the rhachitomes and that these forms had eventually produced the ungainly, doomed stereospondyls.