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dinos

n. (plural of dino English)

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Dinos

In the typology of ancient Greek pottery, the dinos (plural dinoi) is a mixing bowl or cauldron. Dinos means "drinking cup," but in modern typology is used (wrongly) for the same shape as a lebes, that is, a bowl with a spherical body meant to sit on a stand. It has no handles and no feet.

The Dinos Painter, one of the ancient Greek artists known for vase painting, takes his name from the type of vase characteristic of his work.

Usage examples of "dinos".

Hunting dinos was fine, especially if it gave him the chance to test a few otherwise unobtainable weapons.

We want to go someplace where we can shoot the stupid dinos, not just look at 'em.

Everybody sent teams into El Grande and started catching dinos and exporting them for zoos and circuses.

Get these dinos into retirement”—he paused, then glanced around the table, smiling—“down in Tampa.

It’s bad press to claim Darwin is a fool and dinos and other extinct animals never existed, and then along comes Challenger .

So tell us—you were supposed to send the dinos back, not bring more out.

But in the tried-and-true style of all those hard-boiled PI novels that have gone before, from Chandler through to Robert Parker, a last case jolts him out of his addiction and into a conspiracy that will affect dinos everywhere.

We may lose a couple of dinos before we get the rex out of there, but, believe me, we have the park.