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Thesauri :: Thesauri (pl. ) of Thesauru.

Saururae :: Saururae (n. pl.) An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes..

Saurognathous :: Saurognathous (a.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici)..

Sauria :: Sauria (n. pl.) A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia..

Plesiosaurus :: Plesiosaurus (n.) A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the Mesozoic age..

Glass-snake :: Glass-snake (n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World..

Theropoda :: Theropoda (n. pl.) An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies..

Treasury :: Treasury (n.) Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, Maunder's Treasury of Botany..

Elops :: Elops (n.) A genus of fishes. See Saury.

Plesiosaurian :: Plesiosaurian (n.) A plesiosaur.

Enaliosaur :: Enaliosaur (n.) One of the Enaliosauria.

Otozoum :: Otozoum (n.) An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones..

Ichthyosaurus :: Ichthyosaurus (n.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oolitic, and Cretaceous formations..

Saur :: Saur (n.) Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.

Sauroidichnite :: Sauroidichnite (n.) The fossil track of a saurian.

Maestricht Monitor :: Maestricht monitor () The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.

Billfish :: Billfish (n.) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus)..

Hyleosaur :: Hyleosaur (n.) Same as Hylaeosaur.

Laelaps :: Laelaps (n.) A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high..

Brontosaurus :: Brontosaurus (n.) A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

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