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BRONTOSAURUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brontosaurus mean? 

BRONTOSAURUS (noun)
  The noun BRONTOSAURUS has 1 sense:

1. huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassicplay

  Familiarity information: BRONTOSAURUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRONTOSAURUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

apatosaur; apatosaurus; Apatosaurus excelsus; brontosaur; brontosaurus; thunder lizard

Hypernyms ("brontosaurus" is a kind of...):

sauropod; sauropod dinosaur (very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal)

Holonyms ("brontosaurus" is a member of...):

genus Apatosaurus; genus Brontosaurus (large quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaurs with very long neck and tail; late Jurassic)


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