dinosaur

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Dinosaurian

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fossil dino has-been hulk amazon dodo lizard brontosaurus square whale snake relic reptile jumbo conservative
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Antonyms

jupiter saturn ceres hyperion lamia minerva
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Hypernyms

archosaur archosaurian archosaurian reptile

Hyponyms

iguanodon ornithischian saurischian diplodocus argentinosaur titanosaurian

Phrases with the word

flying dinosaur Milo dinosaur theropod dinosaur avian dinosaur dinosaur descendant book that sounds like a dinosaur

Examples

Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening. Steven Spielberg

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer. Nick Tosches

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. Harold Macmillan

Carlos Ramirez: Everyone else who lets me ride on their dinosaur calls me Carlos. Jim Butcher

The dinosaur is for most people the epitome of extinctness, the proto­type of an animal so maladapted to a changing environment that it dies out, leaving fossils but no descendants. Robert T. Bakker

The dinosaurs are not extinct. The colorful and successful diversity of the living birds is a continuing expression of basic dinosaur biology. Robert T. Bakker

Close letter words and terms

Dinornithiformes dinorphin dinos dinosaur age dinosaur descendant dinosaur epoch