dinosaur

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Scientists believe this dinosaur is a completely new species of Titanosaur, its unique neck structure having never been seen before.

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  1. noun Any of various extinct, often gigantic, carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia that were chiefly terrestrial and existed during the Mesozoic Era.
  2. noun A relic of the past: "living dinosaurs of the world of vegetation” (John Olmsted).
  3. noun One that is hopelessly outmoded or unwieldy: "The old, big-city teaching hospital is a dinosaur” (Peggy Breault).

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  • Mick sighed dramatically, as he often did when confronted with what he called my dinosaur tendencies. —  Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
  • Scientists believe this dinosaur is a completely new species of Titanosaur, its unique neck structure having never been seen before. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • But why do people think that the capitalist system is some brainless dinosaur which is 100\% wedded to oil and pollution and totally opposed to renewable energy, etc.? —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • Places like the dinosaur track site in St. George play an important role in paleontology because the evidence of the living dinosaur is another important part of the puzzle. —  thespectrum.com - Local News
  • It started out as a dinosaur, but morphed into a dragon as the design came out. —  MAKE Magazine
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  1. New Latin Dīnosauria, group name, from Dīnosaurus, former genus name : Greek deinos, monstrous + Greek sauros, lizard.
 

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