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pliosaurs

pliosaurs is the plural of pliosaur.

Meaning of pliosaur

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.

Questions about pliosaurs

What is pliosaurs the plural of?
Pliosaurs is the plural of pliosaur.

Words near pliosaurs in the dictionary

  1. pliosaurids
  2. pliosauroid
  3. pliosauroids
  4. pliosauromorph
  5. pliosauromorphs
  6. pliosaurs
  7. pliothermal
  8. pliothermic
  9. pliotron
  10. pliotrons
  11. pliotropic

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