Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
dinosaur , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) See
dinosaur .
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- noun Archaic spelling of
dinosaur .
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Examples
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Zealand Berardius easily beats the ichthyosaurus; our sperm whale is more than a match for any Jurassic European deinosaur; our rorqual, one hundred feet long, just equals the dimensions of the gigantic American
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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I doubt, in short, whether even the solid thigh-bone of the deinosaur could ever have supported the prodigious weight of a full-grown family razor-back whale.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Indeed, if it came to tonnage, I believe a good blubbery right-whale could easily give points to any deinosaur that ever moved upon oolitic continents.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
mollusque commented on the word deinosaur
Variant spelling of dinosaur.
January 13, 2008