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dino-, comb. form|ˈdaɪnəʊ|
[Shortened form of dinosaur n.: cf. *dino n.]
a. Prefixed to nouns forming chiefly nonce-words relating to dinosaurs, as dinomania (also dino-maniac).
1986Times 19 May 5/4 It [sc. a mechanical replica of a pterodactyl] plummeted to earth, much as the flying lizards are thought to have done 65 million years ago... Onlookers quickly called [it] the ‘dinoflop’. 1987St. Petersburg (Florida) Times 23 May 1b/4 To some extent, the museum has been hit with Dino-mania. In one viewing room is Dinosaurs—The Video. Near the regular gift shop is the Dino-store. 1990Times 3 July 13/6 Homo consumerus took to the cuddly dinosaur with a vengeance, leaving a deposit of inflatable stegosaurs, dinosaur soap, lunch boxes, dino-burgers and robotic dino-roadshows. 1991New Scientist 30 Nov. 50/4 Illustrations [of dinosaurs] are of a good standard... Dinomaniacs can have fun trying to identify the various sources of inspiration. 1991Discover (U.S.) Mar. 2/2 (caption) New fossil evidence suggests that 130 million years ago Earth was ruled not by thundering stegosaurs and tree-munching brontosaurs but by curious dino-midgets, some no bigger than a pigeon. 1993Daily Tel. 10 June 19/2 Dinosaurs are being offered stuffed, painted on lip balm or charging around in Nintendo video games. McDonald's is dishing up dinofries and brontosaurus burgers.
b. Special Comb. dinoturbation Palaeontol. and Geol. [-turbation after *bioturbation n., cryoturbation s.v cryo-], the disturbance of layers of sediment by dinosaur trampling; the effects of this process on the formation of sedimentary rock.
1980P. Dodson et al. in Paleobiol. VI. 229/1 We believe that trampling by large dinosaurs (‘*dinoturbation’) may have had an impact on both the sediments and remains of the small biota. 1986Nature 19 June 732/3 A brontosaur trampled across a collection of living unionid clams in shallow water and preserved them for posterity in the base of the huge footprints, a sedimentological phenomenon termed dinoturbation. 1989Sci. Amer. Sept. 133/2 Many sites show dinosaur trampling that is dense enough to disturb the sedimentary layers themselves. There is a name for this process: dinoturbation. |