PLESIOSAURIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Plesiosauria mean? 

• PLESIOSAURIA (noun)
  The noun PLESIOSAURIA has 1 sense:

1. any of the plesiosaurs

  Familiarity information: PLESIOSAURIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLESIOSAURIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the plesiosaurs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Plesiosauria; suborder Plesiosauria

Hypernyms ("Plesiosauria" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Plesiosauria"):

genus Plesiosaurus (a reptile genus of suborder Plesiosauria)

Holonyms ("Plesiosauria" is a member of...):

order Sauropterygia; Sauropterygia (extinct marine reptiles: plesiosaurs; nothosaurs)