Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Plesiosauria; plesiosauroid; sauropterygian.
- noun A member of the Plesiosauria; a plesiosaur.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A plesiosaur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
plesiosaur .
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Examples
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"A plesiosaurian!" exclaimed Omega, leveling his glasses at the beast.
Omega, the Man Lowell Howard Morrow
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I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness.
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910
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He read it: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects."
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910
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One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects."
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910
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I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyncus, and rotten to the heart with holoaophotal subterranean extemporaneousness.
Mark Twain's Speeches Mark Twain 1872
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One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages -- on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects."
Mark Twain's Speeches Mark Twain 1872
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Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. "
Mark Twain's Speeches Mark Twain 1872
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