The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brontosaurus \Bron`to*sau"rus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. bronth` thunder + say^ros lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of large sauropod American dinosaurs of the jurassic era, or an individual of that genus. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles. The genus is also called Apatosaurus, and individuals of the genus are also called brontosaurs. [1913 Webster +PJC] ||
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n. (plural of brontosaur English)
Usage examples of "brontosaurs".
She'll see you don't get hurt, and I'm sure she'll be happy to tell you more than you ever wanted to know about brontosaurs.
Callie was there, pointing something out to Brenda, who stood beside her watching the spectacle of two mating brontosaurs.
I could dimly see the hulking shadows of a dozen brontosaurs, darker shapes against the night, placidly chewing their cuds and farting like foghorns.
I took off, pounding the dirt with my feet, thanking the generations of brontosaurs who had packed it so hard.
Drunks see pink elephants and brontosaurs and bugs crawling all over everything.
All right, we settle for driving off the mammoth, and leave the brontosaurs alone, and yes, I know they're not called brontosaurs anymore.
I keep the tyrannosaurs from eating all the brontosaurs by giving them meat at a feeding station at the bottom of my monolith.
From over the edge of the monolith came the deep gurgling cries of brontosaurs and the express-train rumbling of a tyrannosaur, like the beginning of a snow avalanche.
Will young people of today doubt me if I aver with a straight face that the Ohio skies back then were often darkened by flocks of hooting pterodactyls, and that forty-ton brontosaurs basked and crooned in the Cuyahoga River's ooze?
Why that Neo-pseudo-classicalmodern stuff went out with the Brontosaurs.