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Meaning of LAELAPS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\L[ae]"laps\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a dark, furious storm.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the
Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very
large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been
bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
 
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