[f. Gr. ἐνάλιο-ς of the sea + σαῦρος lizard.] A ‘marine lizard’: a designation applied to the gigantic fossil reptiles (allied to the crocodiles) forming the orders Sauropterygia and Ichthyopterygia.
1863. Lyell, Antiq. Man, xx. 403. Remains of an enaliosaur … in the coal of Nova Scotia.
