Associations to the word «Plesiosaur»

Wiktionary

PLESIOSAUR, noun. Any of several extinct marine reptiles, of the order Plesiosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. [from c. 1840]

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats