Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Teleosauridæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
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Jacaré-tinga is a smaller kind (only five feet long when full grown), and has the long, slender muzzle of the extinct teleosaurus.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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