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

Noun

any of a large order of extinct prehistoric reptiles many of which were gigantic [Greek deinos fearful + sauros lizard]

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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) back number (informal)

Translations

dinosaur [ˈdaɪnəsɔːʳ] n → dinosaurio

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dinosaur [ˈdaɪnəsɔːʳ] n → dinosaure m

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dinosaur [ˈdaɪnəsɔːʳ] n → Dinosaurier m

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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