Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large brachiosaurid dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus of the Jurassic Period, with the nostrils and eyes set high up on the head.
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- noun A large
herbivorous sauropod dinosaur , Brachiosaurus altithorax, which lived during theJurassic period.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The largest dinosaur is the mother brachiosaurus, which is 36 feet tall and 52 feet in length - her size limits where the show can be performed.
Toledo Newspaper Lisa Renee Ward 2010
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There were fruits hung a hundred feet off the ground that could be reached only by the neck of a brachiosaurus.
Camelot Now 2010
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Calculations by Prof Graeme Ruxton at Glasgow University and Dr David Wilkinson at Liverpool John Moores University show that a 25-tonne brachiosaurus used 80% less energy foraging for food when its neck reached 9 metres from its torso than if had reached 6 metres.
Dinosaurs with long necks were like 1950s vacuum cleaners, say scientists 2011
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One has three allosauruses standing on each other's shoulders so that they're as tall as the brachiosaurus they're stalking.
msagara: My Worldcon Schedule msagara 2009
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With a 6-metre neck, the brachiosaurus could only have reached food immediately beneath or above it and would have had to move to reach more, but a longer neck gave the creature the ability to chomp on plants further away while standing still.
Dinosaurs with long necks were like 1950s vacuum cleaners, say scientists 2011
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It is probably enough gun for velociraptors, but way too small for brachiosaurus or T Rex hunting, even with slugs.
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The brachiosaurus outside of the Field Museum wore a replica Toews jersey.
Hilarious: WBEZ Tries To Show Some Blackhawks Pride (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The brachiosaurus outside of the Field Museum wore a replica Toews jersey.
Hilarious: WBEZ Tries To Show Some Blackhawks Pride (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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No one knows who built Greylag; none can say if they were of the race of men or some older, forgotten race that walked upon the earth when the brachiosaurus still made his home in the swamps and the allosaur still gazed out from the hills at dusk, razor teeth glinting in the sunset, and called her hideous children home.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009
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No one knows who built Greylag; none can say if they were of the race of men or some older, forgotten race that walked upon the earth when the brachiosaurus still made his home in the swamps and the allosaur still gazed out from the hills at dusk, razor teeth glinting in the sunset, and called her hideous children home.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009
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