elasmosaurusn.
/ɪˌlazməʊˈsɔːrəs/ Palaeontology.
An extinct marine reptile.
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1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 359/2 One of the most extraordinary of these reptilian forms was the Elasmosaurus—a huge snake-like form 40 feet long, with slim arrow-shaped head on a swan-like neck rising 20 feet out of the water.
1889 Cent. Dict. Elasmosaur.
1924 Glasgow Herald 5 July 4 One of them, Elasmosaurus, seems to have been 45 feet in length, half consisting of neck.
1961 Observer 28 May 30/5 Loch Ness contains the answer to the sea-serpent problem..a relict population of Elasmosaurs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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