Source : WordNet®

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