mosasaur
noun
mosasaur is a noun meaning “A large extinct marine reptile in the family †Mosasauridae, dominant marine predator of the Cretaceous. Mosasaurs are considered to belong to…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-S-A-S-A-U-R, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mosasaur is mosasaurs.
What does mosasaur mean?
noun
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A large extinct marine reptile in the family †Mosasauridae, dominant marine predator of the Cretaceous. Mosasaurs are considered to belong to Squamata, the same group that includes lizards and snakes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mosasaur
- mosasaurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mosasaur?
Mosasaur appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Mosasaur in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense extinct marine reptile in family Mosasauridae:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Mosasaurier |
| Portuguese | mosassauro |
| Spanish | mosasáurido, mosasaurio |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does mosasaur come from?
From scientific Latin Mosasaurus (genus name).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).