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brontosaur Palæont.|ˈbrɒntəsɔː(r)|
[f. Brontosaurus.]
A reptile belonging to the genus Brontosaurus (Apatosaurus); a brontosaurus; more widely, any large dinosaur.
1892H. N. Hutchinson Extinct Monsters v. 66 The body of the Brontosaur was comparatively short. 1902Current Lit. Jan. 59/1 The fossils of Gilmore's Brontosaur were loaded on board the cars at Medicine Bow. 1909‘Mark Twain’ Is Shakes. Dead? iv. 41 The colossal skeleton brontosaur. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia I. 258/3 A full-grown brontosaur weighed many times as much as Allosaurus and had a strong, whip-like tail that would have been an effective weapon. 1979Fairbridge & Jablonski Encycl. Paleontol. 489/1 (caption) Cross section of thorax of brontosaur (Diplodocus) and elephant (Loxodonta). |