champsosaur
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Clipping of translingual Champsosaurus
Noun[edit]
champsosaur (plural champsosaurs)
- Any extinct diapsid reptile of the genus †Champsosaurus.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 107:
- Somewhere out there, predatory lizards called chapsosaurs and large alligator-like crocodilians lurk, mostly submerged in the water, snapping at fish.