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Plesiosaurus

Definition: Plesiosaurus

Plesiosaurus

Noun

1. Extinct marine reptile with a small head on a long neck a short tail and four paddle-shaped limbs; of the Jurassic and Cretaceous.

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Date "plesiosaurus" was first used: 1825. (references)

Etymology: Plesiosaurus \Ple`si*o*sau"rus\, noun; plural Plesiosauri. [New Latin expression, from Gr near lizard.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: Plesiosaurus

DomainDefinitions

Geography

A marine predatory dinosaur. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonym: Plesiosaurus

Synonym: plesiosaur (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Plesiosaurus

English words defined with "plesiosaurus": Elasmosaurusgenus PlesiosaurusPlesiosauri, PliosaurusSea saurian. (references)
Etymologies containing "plesiosaurus": Plesiosauria. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Plesiosaurus

DomainTitle

Books

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Expression: Plesiosaurus

Expression using "plesiosaurus": genus Plesiosaurus. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Plesiosaurus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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plesiosaurus

20
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Modern Translations: Plesiosaurus

Language Translations for "plesiosaurus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

плезиозавър. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

plesiosaurus, joutsenlisko. (various references)

   

French

  

plésiosaure. (various references)

   

Italian

  

plesiosauro. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esiosaurusplay

   

Portuguese

  

plessiosauro. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

plesiosaurio. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

plesiosaurie, svanödla. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

плезіозавр (plesiosaur). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Plesiosaurus

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

plesios. (various references)

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Misspellings: Plesiosaurus

Misspellings

"Plesiosaurus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Plateosaurus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Plesiosaurus"

Words rhyming with "plesiosaurus" (pronounced 'Ple`si*o*sau"rus'): Arcturus, Birrus, brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Carus, Ceratosaurus, Churrus, Citrus, Coenurus, gyrus, hadrosaurus, ichthyosaurus, Laurus, Malapterurus, Morosaurus, Morus, Mosasaurus, Paleosaurus, Palinurus, Papyrus, Pelorus, Pleiosaurus, Pliosaurus, Proterosaurus, Pylorus, Pyrus, Scarus, Sciurus, Silurus, Strato-cirrus, Susurrus, thesaurus, torus, urus, Varus, Virus, Walrus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Plesiosaurus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-o-p-r-s-s-s-u-u"

-1 letter: plesiosaurs.

-2 letters: plesiosaur.

-3 letters: espousals, ossuaries, polarises, psoriases, rousseaus, solarises, surpluses.

-4 letters: espousal, lassoers, pelorias, perilous, perusals, plessors, polarise, poussies, prossies, psiloses, purlieus, pusslies, reposals, rissoles, rouleaus, rousseau, sepalous, soapless, soilures, solarise, sourpuss, spirulae, spirulas, spoilers, sporules, spousals, spurious, suspires, upraises, uprouses.

-5 letters: airless, arouses, asepsis, aspires, aspises, assoils, assures, espials, euripus, issuers, lapises, lapsers.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-o-p-r-s-s-s-u-u"
 

+5 letters: superspeculations.

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Alternative Orthography: Plesiosaurus


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6C 65 73 69 6F 73 61 75 72 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101100 01100101 01110011 01101001 01101111 01110011 01100001 01110101 01110010 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#115 &#97 &#117 &#114 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006C 0065 0073 0069 006F 0073 0061 0075 0072 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

507871857581856787848785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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乌克兰, for Ukranian;