Re: Definitions

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@friesen.net>]

At 12:11 PM 7/23/00 +0000, gmbra@cygnus.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> I'd appreciate it if anyone could help out with some brief definitions of
> the following terms:
> parasuchian
> amphesbaenian
> actinopterygian
>
> pedogenic (geol def)

Having to do with the formation of soils
['ped' = "soil", 'gen' < 'genesis' = "origin"].


> synsacrum

A fused sacrum, formed by the fusion of the sacral vertebrae into a single 
unit.

> glenoid bone
>
> ornithuran
> neornithine
> carinate birds

Birds with a keeled breastbone.

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