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