English Explanatory Dictionary

liopleurodon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of the genus †Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.

Word forms

liopleurodon liopleurodons

Etymology

From the genus name (from Ancient Greek λεῖος (leîos) + pleuro- + -odon).

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