dinon.

Brit.

/ˈdʌɪnəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈdaɪnoʊ/

Inflections: Plural dinos, (rare) dinoes.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: dinosaur n.

Etymology: Shortened < dinosaur n.

colloquial.

A dinosaur.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > saurian or dinosaur

saurian1817

saurus1834

dinosaur1842

dinosaurian1842

dino1910

1910 Los Angeles Herald 29 May i. 3/4 (headline) Prof. Barnum Brown to lead the search for 3-horned dinos.

1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxiv. 250 Hanging near a window..was the petrified rib of a rhoetosaurus dinosaur... Mrs Finn told us that dinoes used to patronize the mud baths of Central Australia.

1987 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 Feb. 24/3 The film Caveman, which shows Ringo Starr saving Shelley Long from the jaws of a vile dino by feeding it an intoxicating herb.

2015 Science 6 Feb. 591/2 Many plant-eating dinosaurs had long necks, but none more impressive than the mamenchisaurids, a group of dinos that once roamed Asia.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier, as in dino bone, dino DNA, dino egg, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [adjective] > of order Sauria > of or relating to dinosaur

saurian1826

dinosaurian1842

dinosauric1888

dino1981

1981 Washington Post 4 Dec. (Weekend section) 5/3 Clips from ‘One Million Years, B.C.’, ‘The Land Time Forgot’, and other dino classics show how Hollywood brought beast and man together, despite the 60-million-year gap between the former's extinction and the latter's evolution.

1990 Sci. Amer. Dec. 100/1 Illustrated chapters recount dino classification and dino biology, summarize museums and finds worldwide, [etc.].

1997 Science 1 Aug. 245/1 If dino DNA were successfully extracted from amber, the genome would be extracted in several million fragments, each a few hundred base pairs long.

2002 Skeptic 9 32/1 I had included an actual dinosaur bone, a tail vertebra the size of a steak. Thirteen-year-old Steve had been envious. ‘Where did you get that dino bone?’ he asked.

2020 N.Y. Times 27 Aug. The smuggler who illegally snatched dino eggs from Argentina some 20 years ago probably didn't know one held the best-preserved skull of a dinosaur embryo ever found.

C2. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has a dinosaur ——’, ‘having a dinosaur's —— ’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as dino-sized, dino-themed, etc.

ΚΠ

1968 Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun 16 July 16/2 (advt.) Get your free bar of Dino shaped Soap.

1998 Video Business 29 June 34 A marketing campaign of dino-sized proportions.

2001 Evening Standard (Nexis) 28 Apr. This dino-themed play centre is packed with so many fun features we felt a stir of jealousy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

单词	dino
释义	dinon. Brit. /ˈdʌɪnəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdaɪnoʊ/ Inflections: Plural dinos, (rare) dinoes. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: dinosaur n. Etymology: Shortened < dinosaur n. colloquial. A dinosaur. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > saurian or dinosaur saurian1817 saurus1834 dinosaur1842 dinosaurian1842 dino1910 1910 Los Angeles Herald 29 May i. 3/4 (headline) Prof. Barnum Brown to lead the search for 3-horned dinos. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxiv. 250 Hanging near a window..was the petrified rib of a rhoetosaurus dinosaur... Mrs Finn told us that dinoes used to patronize the mud baths of Central Australia. 1987 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 Feb. 24/3 The film Caveman, which shows Ringo Starr saving Shelley Long from the jaws of a vile dino by feeding it an intoxicating herb. 2015 Science 6 Feb. 591/2 Many plant-eating dinosaurs had long necks, but none more impressive than the mamenchisaurids, a group of dinos that once roamed Asia. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier, as in dino bone, dino DNA, dino egg, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [adjective] > of order Sauria > of or relating to dinosaur saurian1826 dinosaurian1842 dinosauric1888 dino1981 1981 Washington Post 4 Dec. (Weekend section) 5/3 Clips from ‘One Million Years, B.C.’, ‘The Land Time Forgot’, and other dino classics show how Hollywood brought beast and man together, despite the 60-million-year gap between the former's extinction and the latter's evolution. 1990 Sci. Amer. Dec. 100/1 Illustrated chapters recount dino classification and dino biology, summarize museums and finds worldwide, [etc.]. 1997 Science 1 Aug. 245/1 If dino DNA were successfully extracted from amber, the genome would be extracted in several million fragments, each a few hundred base pairs long. 2002 Skeptic 9 32/1 I had included an actual dinosaur bone, a tail vertebra the size of a steak. Thirteen-year-old Steve had been envious. ‘Where did you get that dino bone?’ he asked. 2020 N.Y. Times 27 Aug. The smuggler who illegally snatched dino eggs from Argentina some 20 years ago probably didn't know one held the best-preserved skull of a dinosaur embryo ever found. C2. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has a dinosaur ——’, ‘having a dinosaur's —— ’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as dino-sized, dino-themed, etc. ΚΠ 1968 Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun 16 July 16/2 (advt.) Get your free bar of Dino shaped Soap. 1998 Video Business 29 June 34 A marketing campaign of dino-sized proportions. 2001 Evening Standard (Nexis) 28 Apr. This dino-themed play centre is packed with so many fun features we felt a stir of jealousy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1910
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