Hylaeosaurus: alternatives and connections

A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six fee…

A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the…

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, ca…

A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the sku…

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…

An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike chara…

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grad…

The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.

A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the…

Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.

Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain r…

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet…

A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of t…

Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…