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camarasaur

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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 ft. (12.2 m); until 1981 the type specimen of Brontosaurus excelcus was wrongly reconstructed with a Camarasaurus skull.

Origin:
< NL Camarasaurus (1877), irreg. < Gk kamára space enclosed by an arch, vault (cf. chamber ) + -saurus -saur
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