transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈmō-zə-ˌsȯr ]
noun
Etymology: New Latin Mosasaurus, from Latin Mosa the river Meuse + Greek sauros lizard
Date: 1841
: any of a family (Mosasauridae) of very large extinct marine fish-eating lizards of the Upper Cretaceous with limbs modified into paddles that are related to the recent monitor lizards