Usage examples (29)

• Amy had once said that if Jessie went to her mother and asked if she could have a pet plesiosaurus, Mrs. Norwood would say:
• “The other is a plesiosaurus (almost lizard), a serpent, armoured with the carapace and the paddles of a turtle; he is the dreadful enemy of the other.”
• Mary Anning 1799-1847, the great West Country palaeontologist, struggled for years to have her discoveries – such as the plesiosaurus – recognised as her own.
• But before he could turn to remonstrate she was volubly bidding him not to go off into a brown study over some plesiosaurus, and forget all about his charge, or make a...