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单词 brontosaur
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
bron•to•saur /ˈbrɑntəˌsɔr/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Paleontologya huge, four-footed, plant-eating dinosaur.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
bron•to•saur  (brontə sôr′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Paleontologya huge sauropod dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus (formerly Brontosaurus) and closely related genera, of the Jurassic Period, having a massive body, a small head and long neck, and thick columnar limbs, and ranging up to 77 ft. (23.5 m) in length.
  • see brontosaurus

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
bron•to•sau•rus  (bron′tə sôrəs),USA pronunciation n., pl. -sau•rus•es, -sau•ri 
    (-sôrī).USA pronunciation 
  1. Paleontologybrontosaur.
  • Neo-Latin (1879), equivalent. to Greek bronto- (combining form of bronté̄ thunder) + saûros -saurus

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
brontosaurus /ˌbrɒntəˈsɔːrəs/, brontosaur /ˈbrɒntəˌsɔː/ n
  1. any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
Etymology: 19th Century: from New Latin, from Greek brontē thunder + sauros lizard
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