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单词 pelagosaur
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pelagosaurn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Pelagosaurus.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Pelagosaurus, genus name (details and date of coinage not known) < classical Latin pelagus (or ancient Greek πέλαγος ) sea (see pelagic adj. and n.) + scientific Latin -saurus -saur comb. form. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pe·lăgosǭɹ) /ˈpɛləɡə(ʊ)sɔː(r)/.
Palaeontology. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
An extinct marine crocodile of the mesosuchian genus Pelagosaurus, having amphicoelous vertebrae and found in European Jurassic strata.
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1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Pelagosaur, an extinct saurian of the upper Jurassic formation. [Also in later dictionaries.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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