plesiosaur

n. 蛇颈龙

发音

其它 /ˈpliːsiəsɔːɹ/

词形变化

plesiosaurs 复数 plesiosaurs

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of the order †Plesiosauria of extinct marine reptiles, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

    蛇颈龙

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

plesiosaurus

上位词 2

archosaur archosaurian

词源

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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