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dinoˈsaurian, a., n.
[f. as prec. + -ian.]
A. adj. Of the nature of, or related to, a dinosaur; belonging to the group Dinosauria.
1873[see dicynodontian]. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. VII, 216 The number of dinosaurian reptiles was very large. 1881G. Macdonald Mary Marston II. iii. 52 The old-fashioned horror would inevitably raise its deinosaurian head afresh above the slime of his consciousness.
B. n. A member of the Dinosauria, a dinosaur.
1841Owen in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 102 Dinosaurians..A distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xi. (1878) 295 The Mastodon and the more ancient Dinosaurians having become extinct. 1881Lubbock in Nature No. 618. 403 It seems to be now generally admitted that birds have come down to us through the Dinosaurians. |