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dinosaurian

dinosaurian

6.3
About dinosaurs or their features
  • adjective
  • /ˌdaɪnəˈsɔriən/
translation icon : de dinosaurio
  • The film featured dinosaurian creatures that roamed the Earth millions of years ago.

Examples

  • Researchers found dinosaurian bones that provided insight into the behavior of ancient reptiles.

  • These data strongly suggest that the DNA is original, but without sequence data, it is impossible to confirm that the DNA is dinosaurian.

    Blog text (7)

  • However, the small genomes of birds are now known to have originated deep within the dinosaurian roots of modern birds long before the origin of flight, perhaps as a means of accommodating other metabolic needs (Organ et al. 2007).

    Academic text (2008)

  • The museum's dinosaurian exhibits include life-sized replicas of various dinosaur species.

Surface Forms

dinosaurian positive

Morphology

dinosaurian = dinosaur (transparent) = dinosaur + ian

The adjective is a regular formation from 'dinosaur' with '-ian' meaning 'relating to' or 'pertaining to', so the sense 'relating to dinosaurs' is directly derived.

Etymology

Dinosaurian comes from the word dinosaur, which itself comes from Greek deinos 'terrible' and sauros 'lizard', so it means 'relating to or like dinosaurs'.