brontosaur

[ bron-tuh-sawr ]

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noun

a huge sauropod dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus (formerly Brontosaurus ) and closely related genera, of the Jurassic Period, having a massive body, a small head and long neck, and thick columnar limbs, and ranging up to 77 feet (23.5 meters) in length.

He is a brontosaur: nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris.

The twenty-ton Brontosaur had a brain no larger than that of a new-born human infant.

The Brontosaur, though only sixty feet long, probably weighed twenty tons.

Again the ponderous amphibious brontosaur pushed through marshes.

He is a Brontosaur: nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of paris.

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