protorosaur
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extinct archosauromorph reptile of the order Protorosauria.
Example Sentences
- "The large-sized protorosaur Tanystropheus had extremely elongated neck vertebrae and a neck more than two times the length of its trunk."
- "On the other side, there are about 28 chevrons in the long tail of the protorosaur Tanystropheus at least half of which are similar to element i (see [33 ]: Plate 1, Figure 37)."
Etymology
From scientific Latin Protorosaurus (genus name).