Tom claims to have seen a plesiosaur in the lake.
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Plesiosaur
//ˈpliːsiəsɔːɹ//
Synonyms for "plesiosaur" (4 found)
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14 translations across 13 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 蛇頸龍 /蛇颈龙 noun (extinct marine reptile)
Finnish
1 entries- joutsenlisko noun (extinct marine reptile)
French
1 entries- plésiosaure noun (extinct marine reptile)
Icelandic
1 entries- svaneðla noun (extinct marine reptile)
Italian
1 entries- plesiosauro noun (extinct marine reptile)
Japanese
1 entries- 首長竜 noun (extinct marine reptile)
Korean
1 entries- 수장룡 noun (extinct marine reptile)
Polish
1 entries- plezjozaur noun (extinct marine reptile)
Portuguese
1 entries- plesiossauro noun (extinct marine reptile)
Russian
1 entries- плезиоза́вр noun (extinct marine reptile)
Slovene
1 entries- pleziozaver noun (extinct marine reptile)
Spanish
1 entries- plesiosaurio noun (extinct marine reptile)
Swedish
2 entries- plesiosaurie noun (extinct marine reptile)
- svanödla noun (extinct marine reptile)
Sample sentences
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Mary has wanted to be a paleontologist ever since she first saw a drawing of a plesiosaur.
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The study did rule out the possibility that Nessie, the favorite of folklore, is a long-necked ancient reptile called a plesiosaur. The study also rejected speculations that it might be a Greenland shark or a giant sturgeon.
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Elasmosaurs are a genus of plesiosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous.
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