camarasaur

 [kam-er-uh-sawr]  

cam·a·ra·saur

   [kam-er-uh-sawr]
noun
a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the genus Camarasaurus and closely related genera, having a small head, long neck, and short forelimbs, and reaching a length of 40 feet (12.2 meters); until 1981 the type specimen of Brontosaurus excelcus was wrongly reconstructed with a Camarasaurus skull.
Origin:
< Neo-Latin Camarasaurus (1877), irregular < Greek kamára space enclosed by an arch, vault (compare chamber) + -saurus -saur
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