Associations to the word «Pelycosaur»

Wiktionary

PELYCOSAUR, noun. Any of a group of basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsid amniotes, formerly regarded as an order.

Dictionary definition

PELYCOSAUR, noun. Large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope