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from The Century Dictionary.
- One of the major groups into which Reptilia (excepting Pleurospondylia) are divisible, including the orders Plesiosauria, Lacertilia, and Ophidia, in all of which the dorsal vertebræ have transverse processes which are either entire or very imperfectly divided into terminal facets.
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