titanosaur
any amphibious plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Titanosaurus, from the Cretaceous Period, having a long, thin neck and a long, whiplike tail.
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How to use titanosaur in a sentence
That titanosaur in Brazil had been the earliest case of an apparent respiratory infection.
Dinos may have had the sniffles 150 million years ago | Sid Perkins | March 7, 2022 | Science News For StudentsThat’s at least 50 million years older than the previously reported respiratory infection in a titanosaur unearthed in Brazil.
Fossils reveal what may be the oldest known case of the dino sniffles | Sid Perkins | February 10, 2022 | Science News
British Dictionary definitions for titanosaur
/ (taɪˈtænəˌsɔː) /
any of various herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaurs of the family Titanosauridae, of Jurassic and Cretaceous times: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
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Scientific definitions for titanosaur
[ tī-tăn′ə-sôr′, tīt′n- ]
Any of various very large sauropod dinosaurs of the group Titanosauria of the Cretaceous Period. The titanosaurs were the last group of sauropods to evolve and probably include the largest sauropods ever (belonging to the genus Argentinosaurus). Some specimens were armored with bony plates.
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