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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
nothosaur is a noun meaning "extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming". It carries one recorded sense.
extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nothosaur come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.