hydrosaurus

These places were especially disagreeable to cross; for under the gloomy shadow of the trees they would now and then catch a glimpse of huge newt-like lizards of the genus _hydrosaurus_ -- almost as large as crocodiles -- slowly floundering out of the way, as if reluctant to leave, and half-determined to dispute the passage.

The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

With this knowledge of what it would afford them, Saloo had no difficulty in persuading Captain Redwood to send a bullet through the skull of the _hydrosaurus_, and it soon lay lifeless upon the ground.

The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

There was brontosaurus, and atlantosaurus, and hydrosaurus, and iguanodon, -- lizards, you know, not like these little black fellows that run about in the pulverized feldspar here, but chaps eighty or a hundred feet long, and twenty or thirty high; and turtles, as big as a house. "

The Golden Fleece 1896

There was brontosaurus, and atlantosaurus, and hydrosaurus, and iguanodon, -- lizards, you know, not like these little black fellows that run about in the pulverized feldspar here, but chaps eighty or a hundred feet long, and twenty or thirty high; and turtles, as big as a house. "

The Golden Fleece, a romance Julian Hawthorne 1890