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Meaning of sphenodon | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The tuatara.
  2. Any of the other extinct reptiles of the Sphenodontidae family.

Equivalents

Français sphénodon

Examples

“In New Zealand the dinosaurs had perished 65 million years before, as they had elsewhere on the globe; but the sphenodons or tuataras who had been their contemporaries from Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain⟳ obscure.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

sphenodont sphenodontian sphenodontid sphenodontine sphenoethmoid recess sphenoethmoidal recess

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