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pliosaur

pliosaur noun: any plesiosaur in the suborder †Pliosauroidea, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.

pliosaur: any plesiosaur in the suborder †Pliosauroidea, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late...
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Noun

pliosaur (plural pliosaurs)

  1. Any plesiosaur in the suborder †Pliosauroidea, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.
    • Hunting many of the other marine reptiles are the pliosaurs, short-necked and large-headed versions of plesiosaurs who appear to have had a general diet of anything that moved.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 138
    1. Any plesiosaurs of the family †Pliosauridae.

Forms of pliosaur

pluralpliosaurs

Words formed from pliosaur

Questions about pliosaur

What does pliosaur mean?
Pliosaur means any plesiosaur in the suborder †Pliosauroidea, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.
What part of speech is pliosaur?
Pliosaur is a noun.
What is the plural of pliosaur?
The plural of pliosaur is pliosaurs.

Words near pliosaur in the dictionary

  1. pliopithecids
  2. pliopithecoid
  3. pliopithecoids
  4. plioplatecarpine
  5. plioplatecarpines
  6. pliosaur
  7. pliosaurian
  8. pliosaurid
  9. pliosaurids
  10. pliosauroid
  11. pliosauroids

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