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An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.
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An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.
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An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
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An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama.
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An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.
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An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.
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An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period. Called also Protosaurus.
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An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria.
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An extinct order of ganoid fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales.
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An extinct order of Mesozoic marine reptiles including the genera Plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also Sauropterygia.
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