Palæont. [ad. mod.L. cēteosaurus, f. Gr. κῆτος (gen. κήτεο-ς) whale + σαῦρος lizard.] A gigantic fossil saurian, whose remains are found in the oolite and chalk.
1872. Carpenter, in Gd. Words, 700. In … [the great Oolitic formation] we have remains of gigantic Reptiles (such as the Cetiosaurus).
1877. Le Conte, Elem. Geol. (1879), 433. The Ceteosaur (Whale-lizard) was probably the largest reptile … which has ever existed.
