Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of colossal dinosaurian reptiles, from the Cretaceous formation Of Dakota.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.
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Examples
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In Boise, Idaho Chung and a dozen collaborators have modeled Pleo after a plant-eating baby camarasaurus from the Jurassic period.
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If I were to have a mounted head on my wall (as opposed to, say, the casts of a saber tooth tiger or garial or camarasaurus or ankylosaurus that I do have) - but if I were to have a stuffed head of a modernday animal, I would want one of these.
Neil Gaiman owns a Jackalope frankwu 2009
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The name brontosaurus is not correct as the animal formerly called that turned out to be actually an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus.
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