-saurus

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Latinized variant of -saur: brontosaurus.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

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