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Theriomorpha

in zoölogy, Owen's name for the tailless amphibians (frogs and toads), more generally called Anoura, or Batrachia Salientia. It is a synonym of Huxley's Batrachia, a name used by Owen to designate the class Amphibia. the THERMÆ. In the Roman thermæ, the baths were of secondary importance.

They were a Roman adaptation of Greek gymnasium, contained exedræ for the philosophers and rhetoricians to lecture in, porticoes for the idle, and libraries for the learned, and were adorned with marbles, fountains, and shaded walks and plantations.

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