Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Saururae

Saururae , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} a lizard + {not transcribed} a tail.]

(Paleontology) An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes.