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  Brachiosaurus

  noun

  Paleontology. a genus of dinosaurs with forelegs distinctively longer than its hind legs, among the largest of all known dinosaurs.
• brachiosaurus
  brachiosaurus

  noun

  a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus , up to 30 metres long: the largest land animal ever known See also sauropod

Brachiosaurus

American  

[bra-kee-uh-sawr-uhs] / ˌbræ ki əˈsɔr əs /

noun

1. Paleontology. a genus of dinosaurs with forelegs distinctively longer than its hind legs, among the largest of all known dinosaurs.

2. (brachiosaurus) a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus; brachiosaur.

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brachiosaurus British  

/ ˌbreɪkɪəˈsɔːrəs, ˌbræk- /

noun

1. a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus , up to 30 metres long: the largest land animal ever known See also sauropod

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brachiosaurus Scientific  

/ brā′kē-ə-sôr′əs /

1. A very large sauropod dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. It had forelegs that were longer than its hind legs, and nostrils on top of its head.

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Imagine a baby Brachiosaurus no bigger than a golden retriever searching for plants alongside its siblings while trying to avoid predators eager for an easy meal.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

Looking at Colossal’s wolves, I don’t even feel a “wow” moment like Ellie Sattler had spotting an InGen-made Brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025

Bites were detected on sauropod bones belonging to Camarasaurus, Galeamopus and Suuwassea as well as bones probably but not definitively belonging to Diplodocus, Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus.

From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2023

She found that theropod brains roughly follow the same rules as warm-blooded modern birds, such as ostriches, whereas the brains of sauropod dinosaurs, such as Brachiosaurus, are more similar to those in modern cold-blooded reptiles.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2023

After the first couple of hours of nothing, you stop waiting for somebody to yell “Eureka!” and haul a Brachiosaurus femur out of the dirt, holding it over their head like the Stanley Cup.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

That film has the distinction of making me feel really bad about a fictional brachiosaurus.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2022

“But, boy do they smell good,” he concludes, taking a hearty sniff of a sneaker and making the same twinkly-eyed grin of delight he once made while looking at a grazing brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2020

I know the raptor scene was the one that most people remember, but for me, it was the brachiosaurus scene.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2017

The “Terra Nova” team discovered, belatedly, that it needed a set of antagonists other than nicoraptors and brachiosaurus, so it added a group of mysterious settlers called the Sixers that clash with the colonists.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2011

The brachiosaurus paused to watch them hurry off and hooted sympathetically.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older