brontosaurus
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- noun
- /ˌbrɒntəˈsɔːrəs/
- US
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brontosaurio
- Children love visiting museums to see the skeleton of the brontosaurus, which towers over the other exhibits.
Examples
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There's enough coo-coo berry resin in there to petrify a brontosaurus.
Fiction book (1994) -
Paleontologists have uncovered many fossils, including those of the giant brontosaurus, in North America.
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Punch a ticket at the end of the day... ...slide down the back of a brontosaurus like Fred Flintstone.
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Brontosaurus.
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Cooper chose a brontosaurus.
Fiction book (2000) -
This isn't a brontosaurus.
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The brontosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs to roam the Earth during the Jurassic period.
Synonyms
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A large plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck and tail that walks on four legs
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A very large plant-eating dinosaur with a long neck that lived in North America
A large plant-eating dinosaur with a long neck and tail
A very large, four-legged dinosaur that ate plants and lived long ago in North America
A large dinosaur that eats plants with a very long neck and tail
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
brontosaurus = bronto + saurus (opaque) = bronto + saurus
The elements are specialist combining forms rather than productive standalone English words, so a typical learner cannot derive 'large dinosaur' from them.
Etymology
Brontosaurus comes from Greek words bronto 'thunder' and saurus 'lizard'. So it means a 'thunder lizard', a picture that helps you remember a very large, heavy dinosaur whose steps might sound like thunder.