brontosaur

[ bron-tuh-sawr ]

noun

1. a huge sauropod dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus (formerly Brontosaurus ) and closely related genera, of the Jurassic Period, having a massive body, a small head and long neck, and thick columnar limbs, and ranging up to 77 feet (23.5 meters) in length.

Word History and Origins

Origin of brontosaur¹

brontosaurus

Example Sentences

He is a brontosaur: nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris.

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The twenty-ton Brontosaur had a brain no larger than that of a new-born human infant.

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The Brontosaur, though only sixty feet long, probably weighed twenty tons.

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Again the ponderous amphibious brontosaur pushed through marshes.

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He is a Brontosaur: nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of paris.

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