Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of Reptilia, typical of the order Plesiosauria, and formerly conterminous with it, now restricted to forms from the Upper Triassic (Rhætic) and the Liassic, as P. dolichodirus, with extremely long neck.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the Mesozoic age.
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
Examples
“Mary Anning 1799-1847, the great West Country palaeontologist, struggled for years to have her discoveries – such as the plesiosaurus – recognised as her own.”
“June, 1972, when Rines first saw “a large, darkish hump, covered ... with rough, mottled skin, like the back of an elephant”: there is no plesiosaurus, nor any other aquatic dinosaur, nor slithering monstrosity of any kind, in the murky depths of Loch Ness.”
“And here is a cast of the pterodactyle and bones of the ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurus, just as fresh as if it had been recently dug up in a churchyard.”
“These diagrams of the plesiosaurus, the ichthyosaurus, the pterodactyle, give you a notion of some of these extinct reptiles.”
“He may even now — if I may use the phrase — be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline lakes of the Triassic Age.”
“Thus the chalk contains remains of those strange flying and swimming reptiles, the pterodactyl, the ichthyosaurus, and the plesiosaurus, which are found in no later deposits, but abounded in preceding ages.”
“The plesiosaurus, a serpent with a cylindrical body and a short tail, has four flappers or paddles to act like oars.”
““The other is a plesiosaurus (almost lizard), a serpent, armoured with the carapace and the paddles of a turtle; he is the dreadful enemy of the other.””
“Suddenly the ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurus disappear below, leaving a whirlpool eddying in the water.”
“All at once an enormous head is darted up, the head of the plesiosaurus.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plesiosaurus’.
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Animals (5 syllables)
Inspired by marky's 1 syllable and 2 syllable lists.
No scientific names or proper names. Fictional creatures are allowed.tyrannosaurus, brachiosaurus, plesiosaurus, yorkshire terrier, peacock mantis sh..., large-eared free-..., black rhinoceros, spectacled dormouse, hippopotamus, spotted hyena, yellow-billed cuckoo, secretary bird and 11 more...
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
From the story by Jules Verne.
rhombohedral crys..., retinasphaltic re..., gehlenites, Fassaites, molybdenites, tungstates, manganese, titanite, zirconium, disenchant, mignonette, bibliomania and 101 more...
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They Roll Off The Tongue
Words that are just fun to say. Entirely subjective, but I like 'em regardless. A complement to the list They Stumble Off The Tongue.
verisimilitude, parsimonious, soliloquy, insipid, ontological, plentifully, je ne sais quoi, misanthropic, bourgeoisie, parallelable, inclemency, frigidity and 159 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 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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