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Huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in N. America in the late Jurassic
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brontosaur
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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] ||
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any member of the genus ''Brontosaurus''.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur , apatosaurus , brontosaurus , thunder lizard , Apatosaurus excelsus ]
Usage examples of brontosaur.
You see, what you used to know as the Brontosaur never really existed.
Apatosaurus is much more agile than the old Brontosaur was thought to be.
Skip King, the man who brought the last living Brontosaur back from Africa alive.
It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet.
A fantastic adventure that was to take Doc Savage and his men into a land where time had stopped, a lost world where the brontosaur and the tyrannosaurus, the largest and most ferocious monsters produced by evolution since time began, were the only kings.
Midgard Serpent, and if we can ever reach back far enough we can house a Brontosaur and a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
And brontosaur begot pteranodon and pteranodon begot tyrannosaur and tyrannosaur begot the great midnight kites-pterodactyls!
There sailed a grand brontosaur, like an arrogant Titanic, headed for unseen collisions with flesh, time, weather, and bergs headed south overland in an Age of Ice.
Conway knew, because the old-time brontosaur invariably took to the water when threatened by enemies, that being its only defence.
The brontosaur had quieted and was showing signs of enjoying itself again when the hands moved to a new position.
Conway began hopping over and around the brontosaur, with Arretapec, who was in rapport with the patient, reporting constantly on the effects of the various stimuli.
The VUXG doctor, in rapport with the brontosaur under the surface of the lake, reported that success or failure hung in the balance.
It was thought that the brontosaur grew slowly, their great size being explained by the fact that they could live two hundred or more years.
The fact of its being on dry land instead of pasturing under water was indicative of its state of mind, Conway knew, because the old-time brontosaur invariably took to the water when threatened by enemies, that being its only defence.
The brontosaur, he knew, could at a pinch eat the vegetation which grew around it, but since Dr.