Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, having an arrangement of the bones of the palate which constitutes a simplification and degradation of the ægithognathous structure, as a woodpecker: as, a saurognathous bird or palate; a saurognathous type of structure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (
Pici ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology having the
bones of thepalate arranged as insaurians , thevomer consisting of twolateral halves , as in thewoodpeckers
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek σαῦρος (sauros, "lizard") + -gnathous.
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