Definition of Pliny

Noun: Pliny  pli-nee

1. Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)
   - Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
    
2. Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)
   - Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus

See also:
plinths
Pliocene

Anagrams containing the word pliny

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