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ˈdaɪ nəˌsɔrdi·nosaur

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dinosaurnoun

    any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era

Wiktionary

  1. dinosaurnoun

    Any of various extinct reptiles belonging to the Dinosauria, existing between about 230 million and 65 million years ago.

  2. dinosaurnoun

    A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

  3. dinosaurnoun

    Anything that is no longer in common use or practice.

  4. Etymology: From δεινός + σαῦρος.

Wikipedia

  1. Dinosaur

    A dinosaur is a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

ChatGPT

  1. dinosaur

    A dinosaur is a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria that first appeared during the Mesozoic Era, between 230 and 65 million years ago. These creatures are characterized by their upright stance, with legs located beneath the body. Dinosaurs can be either carnivorous or herbivorous, and vary greatly in size, from tiny to gigantic. They became extinct for reasons yet not completely understood, possibly due to a major meteor impact or drastic climatic changes. The birds are the only surviving dinosaurs.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dinosaurnoun

    alt. of Dinosaurian

Wikidata

  1. Dinosaur

    Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, approximately 230 million years ago, and were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for 135 million years, from the beginning of the Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous, when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of most dinosaur groups at the close of the Mesozoic Era. The fossil record indicates that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period and, consequently, they are considered a subgroup of dinosaurs by many paleontologists. Some birds survived the extinction event that occurred 66 million years ago, and their descendants continue the dinosaur lineage to the present day. Dinosaurs are a varied group of animals from taxonomic, morphological and ecological standpoints. Birds, at over 9,000 living species, are the most diverse group of vertebrates besides perciform fish. Using fossil evidence, paleontologists have identified over 500 distinct genera and more than 1,000 different species of non-avian dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are represented on every continent by both extant species and fossil remains. Some are herbivorous, others carnivorous. While dinosaurs were ancestrally bipedal, many extinct groups included quadrupedal species, and some were able to shift between these stances. Elaborate display structures such as horns or crests are common to all dinosaur groups, and some extinct groups developed skeletal modifications such as bony armor and spines. Evidence suggests that egg laying and nest building are additional traits shared by all dinosaurs. While modern birds are generally small due to the constraints of flight, many prehistoric dinosaurs were large-bodied—the largest sauropod dinosaurs may have achieved lengths of 58 meters and heights of 9.25 meters. Still, the idea that non-avian dinosaurs were uniformly gigantic is a misconception based on preservation bias, as large, sturdy bones are more likely to last until they are fossilized. Many dinosaurs were quite small: Xixianykus, for example, was only about 50 cm long.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Dinosaur

    dī′no-sawr, n. a gigantic extinct reptile, which attained a length of eighty feet. [Formed from Gr. deinos, terrible, and sauros, lizard.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. dinosaur

    1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power. Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines. In a famous quote from the 1998 Unix EXPO, Bill Joy compared the liquid-cooled mainframe in the massive IBM display with a grazing dinosaur “with a truck outside pumping its bodily fluids through it”. IBM was not amused. Compare big iron; see also mainframe. 2. [IBM] A very conservative user; a zipperhead.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Dinosaur in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Dinosaur in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Dinosaur in a Sentence

  1. Cindy Howells:

    This dinosaur was very small, it was an agile, meat eating creature with sharp teeth, sharp claws, able to move swiftly and grab its prey. We don't quite know what it would have eaten, but possibly small reptiles, small mammals, and possibly other dinosaurs as well. It was a bit like a medium sized dog, very slender, very long-tailed to help it balance as it moved.

  2. Holly Woodward:

    To me, its always amazing to find that if you have something like a huge fossilized dinosaur bone, its fossilized on the microscopic level as well, and by comparing these fossilized microstructures to similar features found in modern bone, we know they provide clues to metabolism, growth rate, and age.

  3. Darla Zelenitsky:

    Such nesting colonies would have been a sight to see back in the Cretaceous where the landscape would have been dotted by a huge number of large dinosaur nests.

  4. Benjamin Englich:

    We don't have a complete skeleton for a dinosaur this big from this time period, that means it's a species we haven't seen before from this era.

  5. Dan Gainor:

    If you do not engage with China in the next two years, you may run the risk of becoming a dinosaur.

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