brontosaur
[ bron-tuh-sawr ]
noun
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.
Origin of brontosaur
1see origin at brontosaurus
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How to use brontosaur in a sentence
He is a brontosaur: nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris.
What Is Man? And Other Stories | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)The twenty-ton brontosaur had a brain no larger than that of a new-born human infant.
The Story of Evolution | Joseph McCabeThe brontosaur, though only sixty feet long, probably weighed twenty tons.
The Story of Evolution | Joseph McCabeAgain the ponderous amphibious brontosaur pushed through marshes.
Futuria Fantasia, Summer 1939 | Ray BradburyHe is a brontosaur: nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of paris.
Is Shakespeare Dead? | Mark Twain
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