dino
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- noun
- /ˈdaɪnoʊ/
- Baby Talk
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dino
- There's a room filled with dinos and incense
- dino hunter
- big dino
- dino embryos
And then to cap it off with hearing every person scream bloody murder, death at the hands of Raptors and other Dinos.
- And then to cap it off with hearing every person scream bloody murder, death at the hands of Raptors and other Dinos.
Examples
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Oooh, Dino, look—there's a nice big dino bone laying out on the front lawn!
Fiction book (1994) -
You wanna go play with your dinos?
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So I guess trying this yellow Dino, huh?
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We got a dead dino, which is a first.
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We could make him our first dino detective.
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If you could be a dinosaur, what kind of Dino would you be?
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The cute little dino is my nephew, Austin, who is a year younger than Nick.
Blog text (26) -
There are scientists and students here, but also a lot of dino-fans, some even with costumes.
Fiction book (2001) -
Dino, that's enough—here, look, Daddy has a nice dino bone for you; just please stop it.
Fiction book (1994) -
The kids love to play with their toy dinos in the backyard.
Synonyms
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A large extinct animal from long ago, like T. rex
Compounds
How Informal
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dino is a short, friendly form of dinosaur, and the two parts deinos and sauros mean 'terrible' and 'lizard', so dino is used for the big animals from long ago and for the toys and pictures of them.