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/ˈpliːsiəsɔːɹ/ · noun
Any of the order †Plesiosauria of extinct marine reptiles, 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 a long, glossy neck surmounted by a small head rising above the surface of the river. Presently the back of the creature was exposed, brown and glossy as the water dripped from it. It turned its eyes upon us, opened its lizard-like mouth, emitted a shrill hiss and came for us. The thing must have been sixteen or eighteen feet in length and closely resembled pictures I had seen of restored plesiosaurs of the lower Jurassic.
It is the first time in Australia the head and body of an elasmosaur, a type of plesiosaur, has been found in one piece.
Use plesiosaur when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Plesiosaur means Any of the order †Plesiosauria of extinct marine reptiles, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods..
Common synonyms include plesiosaurus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"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 a long, glossy neck surmounted by a small head rising above the surface of the river. Presently the back of the creature was exposed, brown and glossy as the water dripped from it. It turned its eyes upon us, opened its lizard-like mouth, emitted a shrill hiss and came for us. The thing must have been sixteen or eighteen feet in length and closely resembled pictures I had seen of restored plesiosaurs of the lower Jurassic.
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