Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, those vertebrates, as fishes and amphibians, which are destitute of an amniotic sac: opposed to Amnionata (which see).
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The three higher classes of vertebrates which we call the amniotes -- the mammals, birds, and reptiles -- are notably distinguished by a number of peculiarities of their development from the five lower classes of the stem -- the animals without an amnion (the anamnia).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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We also find an advance in the structure of several of the internal organs of the Amniotes which raises them above the highest of the anamnia.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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