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Huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in N. America in the late Jurassic
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apatosaurus
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur , brontosaur , brontosaurus , thunder lizard , Apatosaurus excelsus ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
brontosaur \bron`to*saur"\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. bronth` thunder + say^ros lizard.] (Paleon.) a dinosaur of the genus Brontosaurus ; an individual may also be called a brontosaurus or an apatosaurus . [PJC] ||
Wikipedia
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Apatosaurus (; meaning "deceptive lizard") is a genus of extinct sauropod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period . Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, A. ajax in 1877, and a second species, A. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large sauropod dinosaur of the genus ''Apatosaurus'' of the late Jurassic Period. Apatosaurs had a long neck and tail and a relatively small head.
Usage examples of apatosaurus.
Even though it was only a young adolescent, it was already the size of an antique heavy tank, and it blocked the road just as efficiently as an Apatosaurus would have.
The embryos were arranged by species: Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Hadrosaurus, Tyrannosaurus.
Mariella stops at a truck stop beyond Palm Springs, in the shadow of a gigantic purple tyrannosaurus and a yellow apatosaurus, but gets little sleep in her air-conditioned capsule room because of the noise of the big rigs that come and go all night like gigantic creatures at a waterhole.
The names appear in this story: there was Albert the Apatosaurus, Pete the Pentaceratops, Palmer the Parasaurolophus, Sally the Stegosaurus, and Alice the Ankylosaurus.