"amniote" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈam.nɪ.əʊt/ [UK] Forms: amniotes [plural]
Etymology: From scientific Latin Amniota. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|Amniota}} Latin Amniota Head templates: {{en-noun}} amniote (plural amniotes)
  1. (biology) Any of the Amniota group of vertebrates having an amnion during the development of the embryo; mammals, birds and reptiles. Wikipedia link: amniote Categories (topical): Biology Synonyms: amniote Hypernyms: reptiliomorph, vertebrate Derived forms: anamniote, nonamniote Related terms: amnio, amnio-, amniocentesis, amnion, amniotic, amniotic egg, amniotic fluid, amniotic sac Translations (vertebrate having an amnion during the development of the embryo): amniota (Afrikaans), 羊膜動物 (Chinese Mandarin), 羊膜动物 (yángmó dòng wù) (Chinese Mandarin), amniote [feminine, masculine] (French), ამნიონიანები (amnionianebi) (Georgian), amniota (Indonesian), amniote [masculine] (Italian), 羊膜類 (yōmakurui) (alt: ようまくるい) (Japanese), 有羊膜類 (yūyōmakurui) (alt: ゆうようまくるい) (Japanese), 無鰓類 (musairui) (alt: むさいるい) (Japanese), қағанақты (qağanaqty) (Kazakh), 양막류 (yangmangnyu) (alt: 羊膜類) (Korean), 유양막류 (yuyangmangnyu) (alt: 有羊膜類) (Korean), 무새류 (musaeryu) (alt: 無鰓類) (Korean), amniota [feminine] (Latin), آبپردهداران (Persian), owodniowiec [masculine] (Polish), amniota [masculine] (Portuguese), ఉల్బధారులు (ulbadhārulu) (Telugu), động vật có màng ối (alt: 動物𣎏𦛿渨) (Vietnamese)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.