Crossword clues for brontosaurus
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] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1879, Modern Latin, from Greek bronte "thunder" (perhaps from PIE imitative root *bhrem- "to growl") + -saurus. Brontes was the name of one of the Cyclopes in Greek mythology.
Wiktionary
n. One of the largest land animals to ever walk the earth; a ''Brontosaurus''.
WordNet
n. huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, thunder lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus]
Wikipedia
Brontosaurus , meaning "thunder lizard" (from Greek βροντή, brontē = thunder + σαυρος, sauros = lizard), is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs. Originally named by its discoverer Othniel Charles Marsh in 1879, Brontosaurus had long been considered a junior synonym of Apatosaurus; its original species Brontosaurus excelsus was reclassified as A. excelsus in 1903. However, an extensive study published in 2015 by a joint British-Portuguese research team concluded that Brontosaurus was a valid genus of sauropod distinct from Apatosaurus. Nevertheless, not all paleontologists agree with this division.
The same study classified two additional species that had once been considered Apatosaurus and Eobrontosaurus as Brontosaurus parvus and Brontosaurus yahnahpin respectively. Species of Brontosaurus range in age from 155 to 152 million years ago, during the Kimmeridgian age of the lower to middle Morrison Formation in Wyoming and Utah, United States.
As the archetypical sauropod, Brontosaurus is one of the best-known dinosaurs, and has been featured in film, advertising, and postal stamps, as well as many other types of media.
"Brontosaurus" is a song by rock group The Move.
Brontosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs.
Brontosaurus may also refer to:
- 9949 Brontosaurus, a main-belt asteroid
- Hnutí Brontosaurus, an environmental movement in the Czech Republic
- "Brontosaurus" (song), a song by rock group The Move
- An album by Da Vinci's Notebook
- Brontosaurus (play), a stage play by Lanford Wilson
Usage examples of "brontosaurus".
Brontosaurus, diplodocus, brachiosaurus, iguanodon, moschops, stegosaurus, triceratops, and other droppings were labeled by engraving on the bronze stands that held the spheres.
Martian named Crunchy, the physicist George Gamow, James Dean and me in the dripping dark jungle in front of a brontosaurus I had shot.
Barney, and Markoff Chaney were racing toward Las Vegas in the rented Brontosaurus, while Dillinger was leisurely driving back toward Los Angeles.
But there was a small flatfooted lizard that quickly became a large flatfooted lizard and came to look more and more like the brontosaurus.
There were two or three other varieties of Trachodon that I could see, and a few smaller dinosaurs, with a massive bulk in what passed for the distance that might have been a brontosaurus hangover from the Jurassic of a few million years before.
He listened to my heart and lungs, his bald head dipping on the long neck like that of a brontosaurus, sampling leaves.
The skeletal boom of a crane with a wrecking ball lolling from the end hung against the maroon sky like the head and neck of a brontosaurus with its tongue out.
The copper brew kettle gleamed dully in the darkness like a wet, shiny brontosaurus raising its long neck out of a Jurassic swamp.
The medley of icons from the Cambrian, from ancient Africa, shells and brontosaurus brains, glaciers and the stratosphere dissolve on her screen into Gaia's personal heartthrob, the one image I know to be her own.
If you read in the newspaper tomorrow that the brontosaurus has collapsed you'll know why.
Some claims are hard to test - for example, if an expedition fails to find the ghost or the brontosaurus, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
The Brontosauruses protected their young while on the move, like a herd of elephants.
What if I took us down through the clouds and we got one quick look at a bunch of brontosauruses grazing in some Farmer John's field before we were torn apart by a cyclone or fried in an electrical storm?
It was a strange, quavering moan, a galvanizing cross between an alien bass fiddle being played by something with twelve hands and the snore of a sleeping brontosaurus.
Brontosaurus meat is the healthiest single food product ever developed.