thecodontia

English Thesaurus

1. extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	animal order,
definition	:	the order of animals (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	thecodont, thecodont reptile,
definition	:	presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	archosauria, subclass archosauria,
definition	:	a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts (noun.animal)