Definition of "sauroid" []

• Resembling or relating to the saurians. (adjective)

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• "Sulu had never seen a Gorn except from the air, and he tried to keep himself from staring too openly at the sauroid aliens."
• "The sauroid fishes of the past geological ages are an example of this kind."
• "Thus, "among reptiles, the tortoises seem to have borrowed from birds some of their characteristic features of organisation; and among the sauroid fishes the piscine type seems to have been influenced by the type from which reptiles are derived" (p. 479)."