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発音

• IPA: /tuːəˈtɑːɹə/
• ハイフネーション: tu‧a‧ta‧ra

名詞

tuatara (plural tuataras or tuatara)

1. A reptile, Sphenodon punctatus, native to New Zealand, that resembles a lizard and is the only surviving specimen of the order Rhynchocephalia.
   • 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 4:

     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 Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain obscure.

参考

• Sphenodon

Further reading

• tuatara on Wikipedia.Wikipedia