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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113);
[syn: Pliny, Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus]

2. Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79);
[syn: Pliny, Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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