TITANOSAUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does titanosaur mean? 

• TITANOSAUR (noun)
  The noun TITANOSAUR has 1 sense:

1. amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the southern hemisphere

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TITANOSAUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the southern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

titanosaur; titanosaurian

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

dinosaur (any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "titanosaur"):

genus Argentinosaurus (enormous dinosaur of the middle Cretaceous found in Argentina)

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

genus Titanosaurus; Titanosaurus (genus of herbivorous dinosaurs flourishing during the Cretaceous in South America)

 Context examples 

Titanosaur skeletons have been found worldwide, but are best known from South America.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

This titanosaur finding is rare for Africa, and will help resolve questions about the distribution and regional characteristics of what would later become one of the largest land animals known.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

Titanosaurs are best known from Cretaceous rocks in South America, but efforts by the team include new titanosaur species discovered in Tanzania, Egypt and other parts of the African continent.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

Shingopana roamed the Cretaceous landscape alongside Rukwatitan bisepultus, another titanosaur the team described and named in 2014.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

The dinosaur, the third found in southwestern Tanzania by the scientists, is a large, long-necked titanosaur, a type of sauropod.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)