- Plesiosaur
- Plesiosaur Ple"si*o*saur, n. (Paleon.) One of the Plesiosauria. [1913 Webster]
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plesiosàur — m geol. zool. fosilni reptil (Plesiosaurus), morska životinja vrlo male glave, duga vrata, dug do 13 m, živio u trijasu do krede; veslogmaz … Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika
plesiosaur — plesiosàur m DEFINICIJA geol. zool. fosilni reptil (Plesiosaurus), morska životinja vrlo male glave, duga vrata, duga do 13 m, živjela u trijasu do krede; veslogmaz ETIMOLOGIJA grč. plḗsios: bliz + saȗros: gušter … Hrvatski jezični portal
plesiosaur — [plē′sē ə sôr΄] n. [< ModL Plesiosaurus < Gr plēsios, close, near, akin to pelos, near (prob. < IE base * pel , to push > FELT1, L pellere, to drive) + SAUR] any of an extinct group (order Sauropterygia) of large water reptiles of the … English World dictionary
Plesiosaur — Taxobox name = Plesiosaur fossil range = Early Jurassic Late Cretaceous image caption = Plesiosaurus . regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Sauropsida superordo = †Sauropterygia ordo = †Plesiosauria subordo = †Plesiosauroidea subordo… … Wikipedia
plesiosaur — plesiosauroid, adj. /plee see euh sawr /, n. any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail. [ < NL Plesiosaurus (1821),… … Universalium
plesiosaur — noun Etymology: ultimately from Greek plēsios close (akin to Greek pelas near) + sauros lizard Date: 1839 any of an order or suborder (Plesiosauria) of large carnivorous marine reptiles of the Mesozoic with dorsoventrally flattened bodies and… … New Collegiate Dictionary
plesiosaur — noun Any of several extinct marine reptiles, of the order Plesiosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods Look! cried Olson. Would you look at the giraffe comin up out o the bottom of the say? We looked in the direction he pointed and saw… … Wiktionary
plesiosaur — n. extinct marine reptile of the Mesozoic era (having a small head, long flexible neck, four large paddlelike limbs and a short tail) … English contemporary dictionary
plesiosaur — [ pli:sɪəsɔ:, pli:z ] noun a large fossil marine reptile of the Mesozoic era, with large paddle like limbs and a long flexible neck. Origin C19: from mod. L. Plesiosaurus, from Gk plēsios near (because closely related to the lizards) + sauros… … English new terms dictionary
plesiosaur — ple·si·o·saur … English syllables
