SAUROPOD DINOSAUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sauropod dinosaur mean? 

• SAUROPOD DINOSAUR (noun)
  The noun SAUROPOD DINOSAUR has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: SAUROPOD DINOSAUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAUROPOD DINOSAUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sauropod; sauropod dinosaur

Hypernyms ("sauropod dinosaur" is a kind of...):

saurischian; saurischian dinosaur (herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile)

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

apatosaur; apatosaurus; Apatosaurus excelsus; brontosaur; brontosaurus; thunder lizard (huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic)

barosaur; barosaurus (a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall)

Holonyms ("sauropod dinosaur" is a member of...):

Sauropoda; suborder Sauropoda (any of the sauropod dinosaurs)

 Context examples 

Palaeontologists unearthed a two meters long thigh bone that belonged to a giant sauropod dinosaur around 140 million years ago.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The excavation process spanned several years, and included researchers suspended by ropes and large-scale mechanical excavators to recover one of the more complete specimens from this part of the sauropod dinosaur family tree.

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