Anapsid
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A member of a group of primitive reptiles characterised by a skull with no temporal openings, a group that includes all living turtles.
“The fossil record shows that the anapsid skull plan is one of the oldest among amniotes.”
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Ends in SID and contains A, A, I as the three vowels, with PSI as a distinctive cluster
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