dinosaur

di·no·saur  (dn-sôr)

n.

1. Any of various extinct, often gigantic, carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia that were chiefly terrestrial and existed during the Mesozoic Era.

2. A relic of the past: "living dinosaurs of the world of vegetation" (John Olmsted).

3. One that is hopelessly outmoded or unwieldy: "The old, big-city teaching hospital is a dinosaur" (Peggy Breault).

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[New Latin Dnosauria, group name, from Dnosaurus, former genus name : Greek deinos, monstrous + Greek sauros, lizard.]

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dino·sauric (-sôrk) adj.

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dinosaur [ˈdaɪnəˌsɔː]

n

1. (Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) any extinct terrestrial reptile of the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, many of which were of gigantic size and abundant in the Mesozoic era See also saurischian, ornithischian Compare pterosaur, plesiosaur

2. a person or thing that is considered to be out of date

[from New Latin dinosaurus, from Greek deinos fearful + sauros lizard]

dinosaurian  adj

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dinosaur  (dn-sôr)

Any of various extinct reptiles of the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia that flourished during the Mesozoic Era. Dinosaurs were carnivorous or herbivorous, dwelled mostly on land, and varied from the size of a small dog to the largest land animals that ever lived. One group of dinosaurs evolved into birds. See more at ornithischiansaurischian See Note at bird.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

dinosaur - any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era archosaur, archosaurian, archosaurian reptile - extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts ornithischian, ornithischian dinosaur - herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird iguanodon - massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period saurischian, saurischian dinosaur - herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile diplodocus - a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America titanosaur, titanosaurian - amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the southern hemisphere argentinosaur - huge herbivorous dinosaur of Cretaceous found in Argentina ground-shaker, seismosaur - huge herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous found in western North America

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dinosaur

noun fuddy-duddy, anachronism, dodo (informal), stick-in-the-mud (informal), antique (informal), fossil (informal), relic (informal), fogy or fogey, back number (informal) Such companies are industrial dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs

allosaur(us), ankylosaur(us), apatosaur(us), atlantosaur(us), brachiosaur(us), brontosaur(us), ceratosaur(us), compsognathus, dimetrodon, diplodocus, dolichosaur(us), dromiosaur(us), elasmosaur(us), hadrosaur(us), ichthyosaur(us), iguanodon or iguanodont, megalosaur(us), mosasaur(us), oviraptor, plesiosaur(us), pteranodon, pterodactyl or pterosaur, protoceratops, stegodon or stegodont, stegosaur(us), theropod, titanosaur(us), trachodon, triceratops, tyrannosaur(us), velociraptor

Translations

dinosaur [ˈdaɪnəsɔːʳ] N

1. (= reptile) → dinosaurio m

2. (= old-fashioned person) → carcamal mf; (= old-fashioned organization) → reliquia f del pasado

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dinosaur [ˈdaɪnəsɔː^r] n

(= animal) → dinosaure m

(= obsolete organization) → dinosaure m

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dinosaur

n → Dinosaurier m

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dinosaur [ˈdaɪnəsɔːʳ] n → dinosauro

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dinosaur [ˈdaɪnəsɔːʳ] n → dinosauro

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dinosaur

n dinosaur [ˈdainəsoː]

any of several types of extinct giant reptile. dinosourus ديناصور динозавър dinosaurus dinosaurus der Dinosaurier δεινόσαυρος dinosaurio dinosaurus دایناسور dinosaurus dinosaure דִינוֹזָאוּר पुराकालीन जंतु dinosaurus dinoszaurusz dinosaurus risaeðla dinosauro 恐竜 공룡 dinozauras dinozaurs dinosaur dinosaurus dinosaur, kjempeøgle dinozaur dinossauro dinozaur динозавр dinosaurus dinozaver dinosaurus dinosaurie สัตว์จำพวกไดโนเสาร์ dinazor 恐龍 динозавр کئی قسم کے رینگنے والے بھاری جانوروں میں سے کوئی جو اب نا پید ہیں khủng long 恐龙

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dinosaur → ديناصور dinosaurus dinosaur Dinosaurier δεινόσαυρος dinosaurio dinosaurus dinosaure dinosaur dinosauro 恐竜 공룡 dinosaurus dinosaur dinozaur dinossauro динозавр dinosaurie ไดโนเสาร์ dinozor con khủng long 恐龙