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plesiosaur

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10
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/ˈpliːsiəsɔːɹ/

Definition of plesiosaur

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any of the order †Plesiosauria of extinct marine reptiles, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
    “It is the first time in Australia the head and body of an elasmosaur, a type of plesiosaur, has been found in one piece.”

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Etymology

Backformation of translingual Plesiosaurus, named by William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche in 1824 because plesiosaurs were more like a normal reptile than Ichthyosaurus, which had been found in the same rock strata a few years earlier. Surface derivation, plesio- + -saur.

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