Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An apatosaurus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of huge fossil dinosaurian reptiles, notable for their small head and diminutive brain-cavity, the whole skull not exceeding some of the neck-bones in size. One species was about 50 feet long, and probably weighed 20 tons or more.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of large sauropod American dinosaurs of the jurassic era, or an individual of that genus. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles. The genus is also called
Apatosaurus , and individuals of the genus are also calledbrontosaurs .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the largest land animals to ever walk the earth; an
apatosaurus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name brontosaurus is not correct as the animal formerly called that turned out to be actually an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus.
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I grew up thinking the brontosaurus was a major player.
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The sauropods include many of the best known prehistoric animals, such as diplodocus and apatosaurus – the dinosaur formerly known as brontosaurus.
Dinosaurs with long necks were like 1950s vacuum cleaners, say scientists 2011
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The brontosaurus is the lone survivor of a "Pre-History Trail" opened at the Murray Avenue museum in 1967.
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The brontosaurus is the lone survivor of a "Pre-History Trail" opened at the Murray Avenue museum in 1967.
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The brontosaurus is the lone survivor of a "Pre-History Trail" opened at the Murray Avenue museum in 1967.
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The brontosaurus is the lone survivor of a "Pre-History Trail" opened at the Murray Avenue museum in 1967.
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Re: The large dinosaurs identified as "brontosaurus" on Page 12:
Dinosaur-related nitpicks of this weeks DC comics | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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The character who identified the "brontosaurus" was a WWII pilot.
Dinosaur-related nitpicks of this weeks DC comics | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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I even also know that paleontologists (folks who study dinosaurs) decided that a dinosaur that was once called a brontosaurus (a very nice name) shouldn’t be called brontosaurus anymore, and changed it to apatosaurus (a kind of ugly name).
Lulu and the Brontosaurus Judith Viorst 2010
chained_bear commented on the word brontosaurus
Redirect: apatosaurus.
August 31, 2008
mollusque commented on the word brontosaurus
Lexicon of the Brontë sisters.
September 1, 2008
reesetee commented on the word brontosaurus
Heehee!
September 1, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word brontosaurus
(Is it really brontosauruses? Not brontosauri?)
April 12, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word brontosaurus
At midnight in the museum hall
The fossils gathered for a ball
There were no drums or saxophones,
But just the clatter of their bones,
A rolling, rattling, carefree circus
Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas.
Pterodactyls and brontosauruses
Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses.
Amid the mastodontic wassail
I caught the eye of one small fossil.
"Cheer up, sad world," he said, and winked-
"It's kind of fun to be extinct."
Ogden Nash (of course)
April 13, 2010