"pliosaur" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pliosaurs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pliosaur (plural pliosaurs)
  1. Any plesiosaur in the suborder †Pliosauroidea, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.
    Sense id: en-pliosaur-en-noun-2R6sIXzv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 50 50
  2. Any plesiosaur in the suborder †Pliosauroidea, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.
    Any plesiosaurs of the family †Pliosauridae.
    Translations (member of the family Pliosauridae): pliosaurus (Finnish), плиоза́вр (pliozávr) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-pliosaur-en-noun-fb8ieM-o Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Sauropterygians Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 43 57 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 39 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Sauropterygians: 36 64 Disambiguation of 'member of the family Pliosauridae': 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pliosaurian

Inflected forms

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