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dinosaur

[ dahy-nuh-sawr ]

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noun

any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
something that is unwieldy in size, anachronistically outmoded, or unable to adapt to change:
The old steel mill was a dinosaur that cost the company millions to operate.

dinosaur

/ ˈdaɪnəˌsɔː /

any extinct terrestrial reptile of the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, many of which were of gigantic size and abundant in the Mesozoic era See also saurischian ornithischian Compare pterosaur plesiosaur
a person or thing that is considered to be out of date

< New Latin Dinosaurus (1841), originally a genus name. See dino-, -saur

C19: from New Latin dinosaurus, from Greek deinos fearful + sauros lizard

Unlike figure skating, where Russia's Evgeni Plushenko is considered a dinosaur at 31, the age of Olympic curlers is more varied.

I had the idea to write about her when I was at a small dinosaur museum in Dorset.

In 1993, adults and kids alike were dressing as Barney the Dinosaur.

The 68-million-year-old remnants of dinosaur feet were pushed upward by tectonic activity.

The people behind a prank TV show tricked a man into thinking he was being chased by a dinosaur.

Slowly, as though it had seen all it wanted to, the dinosaur turned and went back into the swamp.

Few of these fossil Dinosaur skulls are available for comparison, and those differ among themselves.

Before he could pick himself up the Dinosaur had swung about and buried all three horns, to the sockets, in his throat and chest.

The advantage of bulk lay altogether with the Dinosaur, the three-horned King of all the Lizard kind.

The female Dinosaur, the more instantly malignant of the two, hurled herself upon the trunk of the tree.

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