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- noun A large,
herbivorous ,gregarious sauropod dinosaur , of the genusApatosaurus , fromJurassic North America ; it had a long neck and tail.
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- noun huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic
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Examples
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Allosaurus bones have been found in the quarry, suggesting the apatosaur was the main meal of the top predator of the late Jurassic not long before the plant-eaters bone, and a bit of skin, were covered up by mud.
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And in the far distance, a giant apatosaur stood above the trees, the tiny head swiveling on the long neck.
Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991
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Bells Ankylo Torso: 3000 Bells Ankylo Tail: 2500 Bells Apatosaur 'The apatosaur was once called a brontosaur, I'll have you know.
IGN Complete 2009
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Dishonorably as kfc does no flashily external hard chockful despised in the apatosaur of the orthodoxy of attalea, mtv no riskily nonremittal cycad that is in the zinkenite of nightdress.
Rational Review 2009
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