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brontosaur
[bron-tuh-sawr]
noun
a huge sauropod dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus (formerlyBrontosaurus ) 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.
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Origin of brontosaur1
Example Sentences
A third crop of dinosaurs, which includes brontosaurs, stuck to warmer areas.
Worse, this rumored dustiness reinforces the widespread notion that natural history museums are about the past — just a place to display bugs and brontosaurs.
Some artists have run with the idea and drawn up depictions of giant feathered brontosaurs.
Sauropods, often referred to as brontosaurs, included some of the largest plant-eating dinosaurs to have walked on Earth.
Mr. Switek and his brontosaur spiritual sidekick take you to dig sites, museums and laboratories to experience the rapid changes in dinosaur paleontology.
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