MEGALOSAURUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does megalosaurus mean? 

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

1. gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEGALOSAURUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

megalosaur; megalosaurus

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

bird-footed dinosaur; theropod; theropod dinosaur (any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs)

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

genus Megalosaurus (type genus of the Megalosauridae)

 Context examples 

"Or megalosaurus," said Summerlee.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)