-saurus

How to use -saurus in a sentence

• On the way we passed some very handsome black-necked cranes as large as the Saurus crane.

  Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

• A northern coast name for the gowdanook, saury-pike, or Scomberesox saurus.

  The Sailor's Word-Book | William Henry Smyth

• Seuerall sorts of fishes there are which do or may beare the names of seawoodcocks as the Acus maior scolopax and saurus.

  The Works of Sir Thomas Browne | Thomas Browne

• He named it saurus, or "lizard," but there is nothing lizard-like about the ten-pounder.

  Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander Henshall

• I am told he would go through the crust of earth for the backbone of an idio—ilio-something-saurus.'

  The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete | George Meredith