pliosaur

English

A pliosaur

Noun

pliosaur (plural pliosaurs)

1. Any of several plesiosaurs of the family Pliosauridae, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
   • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 138:

     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.

Translations

member of the family Pliosauridae

• Finnish: pliosaurus
• Russian: плиоза́вр (ru) m (pliozávr)

References

• pliosaur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Pliosauridae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Pliosauridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies