Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large extinct marine reptile having paddlelike limbs that was common in Europe and North America during the Mesozoic Era.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An animal of the order Plesiosauria.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several extinct marine reptiles, of the order Plesiosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Paleon.) One of the Plesiosauria.
WordNet 3.0
- n. extinct marine reptile with a small head on a long neck a short tail and four paddle-shaped limbs; of the Jurassic and Cretaceous
Etymologies
- New Latin Plēsiosaurus, type genus : Greek plēsios, near to; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots + Greek sauros, lizard. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Aquatic creature, air-breathing, cold-blooded, fish-eating, huge body, long neck, small head — did you know the word plesiosaur means ‘next to a lizard’?”
“According to a report in National Geographic News, bones of the prehistoric reptile, known as a plesiosaur, were found in Japan in 1968.”
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“David is right: unfortunately it's the image that leaps to mind for most people whenever 'plesiosaur' is mentioned, and this is despite the fact that there aren't really any accounts from Loch Ness that sound in the least bit plesiosaur-like.”
“Because that's the only association they have to "plesiosaur".”
“Oh, I also made it through two articles in the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology yesterday, "Generic reassignment of an ichthyosaur from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada" and "A remarkable case of a shark-bitten elasmosaurid plesiosaur.”
“It was jet black, and I could tell that the vertebra was from a very young plesiosaur, as the articular facets of the bone were so poorly ossified.”
“At some point this morning, I dreamed of finding a very small plesiosaur vertebra, no larger than a quarter.”
“Last night, I read "Osteology of the cryptocleidoid plesiosaur Tatenectes laramiensis, with comments on the taxonomic status of the Cimoliasauridae" from the new JVP, and we watched four more episodes of Buffy.”
"I’m made of bones of the branches, the boughs, and the browbeating light..."
“While many claim their sea monsters to be plesiosaur-like (see Loch Ness and Champ), Chessie has always been described as a snake-like creature between thirty and forty feet.”
“This creature resembles a large aquatic serpent plesiosaur, which today is best known as Nessie, a nickname given by its fans, whether existing or not, the monster is a celebrity today.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plesiosaur’.
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-saur, sauro-, -saurus
lizard
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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qreen-tailed
in the Century Dictionary definition of 'menhaden' there is a misprint - I speculate- o 'qreen-tailed'for green-tailed. BUT there are alot of odd-tails out there..............
uropygium, hypural, nudicaudate, plesiosaur, macrural, curvicaudate, homocercal, jabiru, xeme, sirenian, dugong, saururaceae and 56 more...
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Pterosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs...
Not dinosaurs, which have their own list. These are all Not Dinosaurs, but they are not not-dinosaury-enough to be on the Not Dinosaurs list.
Includes pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesios...araripedactylus, arthurdactylus, anhanguera, pterodaustro, pterodactylus, pterodactyl, campylognathoides, cearadactylus, comodactylus, dermodactylus, dimorphodon, dsungaripterus and 65 more...
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