Usually means: Large marine reptile with flippers.
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  1. pliosaur: Merriam-Webster
  2. pliosaur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pliosaur: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pliosaur: Wordnik
  5. pliosaur: Wiktionary
  6. Pliosaur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  Any of several plesiosaurs of the family Pliosauridae, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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