brontosaur

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brontosaur Meaning of "brontosaur"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic

Synonym(s)

apatosaurus, apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaurus, thunder lizard

Usage(s):

  1. If dinosaurs were coldblooded, maintains Desmond, they would not have been able to do this because of their size (a brontosaur, for example, weighed around 30 tons); a dinosaur .
  2. At best, Hebald's pot-bellied centaurs, lovers lounging in urnlike bathtubs, and fountain topped by the refugees on Noah's Ark (including a brontosaur that presumably fell .
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