dinosauricadj.

1888 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 180 The current has carried us into..the full dominion of the reptiles, where we speculated concerning the dinosauric origin of the monotremata or of some similar group.

1903 Butte (Montana) Inter Mountain 5 Aug. 2/4 Montana, Wyoming and Colorado have yielded a great harvest of dinosauric bones to the scientist.

1909 Washington Post 29 June 6/4 Blind creatures resembling frogs and presumably of the dinosauric period..were unearthed alive in a sandstone bluff.

1984 R. O'Hanlon In Heart Borneo v. 32 A monitor lizard, reared up on its front legs, watched us for a moment with its dinosauric eyes.

2014 Georgia Rev. Fall 562 The pterodactyl was a pre-historic, dinosauric bird with ‘wing-fingers’.

1922 Washington Post 18 Jan. 17/5 In his physical attributes the English guest conductor has not the academic poise of a Damrosch..; in fact there is a sort of dinosauric attitude on the rostrum at all times.

1961 Economist 1 July 17/1 None of these issues has been so circumscribed..as to dampen the spirits of Mr Harold Wilson, Mr Cousins or anyone else in the dinosauric brigade.

1971 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 1 Nov. 4/5 We even have a few dinosauric survivals from the era when ethnic jokes were acceptable.

1977 J. Rechy Sexual Outlaw 24 Inevitably the dinosauric demolition machines came crushing everything into dust.

2011 Tel. Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 26 Sept. a2 Within a year of 1912, actual film was developed by the Eastman Co. and glass plates became almost dinosauric, much like film today in the wake of digital photography.