pliny Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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. noun Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)
    Pliny the Elder; Gaius Plinius Secundus.

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