pliny

Noun pliny has 2 senses

• pliny(n = noun.person) gaius plinius caecilius secundus, pliny the younger - Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113);
is a kind of author, writer

• pliny(n = noun.person) gaius plinius secundus, pliny the elder - Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79);
is a kind of author, writer