OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 31295

tuatara

/tuːəˈtɑːɹə/
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tuatara • tuátara
A reptile, Sphenodon punctatus, native to New Zealand, that resembles a lizard and is the only surviving specimen of the order Rhynchocephalia.
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 Jurassi…
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