Word.ws English Dictionary

monstersaurid

monstersaurid noun: any varanoid lizard of the clade Monstersauria.

Noun

monstersaurid (plural monstersaurids)

  1. Any varanoid lizard of the clade Monstersauria
    • Although present in most closely related anguids, this character is absent in platynotans with the exception of all shinisaurids, the monstersaurid Primaderma and the mosasaurid Dolichosaurus.2015 July 16, “Evidence of Egg Diversity in Squamate Evolution from Cretaceous Anguimorph Embryos”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of monstersaurid

pluralmonstersaurids

Questions about monstersaurid

What does monstersaurid mean?
Monstersaurid means any varanoid lizard of the clade Monstersauria.
What part of speech is monstersaurid?
Monstersaurid is a noun.
What is the plural of monstersaurid?
The plural of monstersaurid is monstersaurids.

Words near monstersaurid in the dictionary

  1. monsterously
  2. monsters
  3. monsters of the week
  4. monsters-in-law
  5. monstersaurian
  6. monstersaurid
  7. monstersaurids
  8. monstership
  9. monstery
  10. monstrance
  11. monstrance bean

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: monstersaurid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “monstersaurid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/monstersaurid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.