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Plesiosaurus

noun
(pl. plesiosauri)
1.
Extinct marine reptile with a small head on a long neck a short tail and four paddle-shaped limbs; of the Jurassic and Cretaceous.  Synonym: plesiosaur.



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"Plesiosaurus" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a monstrous serpent, concealed under the hard vaulted shell of the turtle, the terrible enemy of its fearful rival, the Plesiosaurus, or sea crocodile." ...
— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne

... of matter to pass would remain, notwithstanding all ulterior transformations, an indelible principle and an immortal cause. The formidable, provisional vegetations of the primary epoch, the chaotic and immature monsters of the secondary grounds—Plesiosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Pterodactyl—these might also regard themselves as vain and ephemeral attempts, ridiculous experiments of a still puerile nature, and conceive that they would leave no mark upon a more harmonious globe. And ...
— The Buried Temple • Maurice Maeterlinck

... simultaneously, bore with the mildness of an angel, lifting up her eyes to heaven and murmuring something about "poor old bones,"—though as for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years, and you might as soon have found a Plesiosaurus in the fat lands of Romney Marsh as a bone amidst those layers of flesh in which my poor father thought he had so carefully cottoned up ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton



Words linked to "Plesiosaurus" :   archosaurian, archosaur, archosaurian reptile



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