单词 | brontosaur |
释义 | brontosaurn. Palaeontology. A reptile belonging to the genus Brontosaurus ( Apatosaurus); a brontosaurus; more widely, any large dinosaur. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > order Saurischia > order Sauropoda > Brontosaurus or diplodocus Apatosaurus1878 Brontosaurus1879 diplodocus1884 brontosaur1892 apatosaur1895 1892 H. N. Hutchinson Extinct Monsters v. 66 The body of the Brontosaur was comparatively short. 1902 Current Lit. Jan. 59/1 The fossils of Gilmore's Brontosaur were loaded on board the cars at Medicine Bow. 1909 ‘M. Twain’ Is Shakespeare Dead? iv. 41 The colossal skeleton brontosaur. 1974 Encycl. 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. 1979 Fairbridge & Jablonski Encycl. Paleontol. 489/1 (caption) Cross section of thorax of brontosaur (Diplodocus) and elephant (Loxodonta). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1892 |
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