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- adjective Resembling a
dinosaur or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The birds, which stand up to 4 feet tall on pipe-cleaner legs and really do dance and hop around in a mesmerizing fashion, are a stunning, prehistoric throwback, looking and sounding - at least one can imagine - very dinosaurlike.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Meanwhile, Blizzard was bogged down in creating a role playing game called Nomad, which had a post-apocalyptic theme and dinosaurlike monsters that were outfitted with tanklike weapons.
Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2011
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Fossil discoveries have blurred the distinction between dinosaurlike birds and birdlike dinosaurs, with traits such as feathers and wishbones no longer seen as reliable guides.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Fossil discoveries have blurred the distinction between dinosaurlike birds and birdlike dinosaurs, with traits such as feathers and wishbones no longer seen as reliable guides.
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Fossil discoveries have blurred the distinction between dinosaurlike birds and birdlike dinosaurs, with traits such as feathers and wishbones no longer seen as reliable guides.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The question now is, if not Archaeopteryx, which of many feathered dinosaurs or dinosaurlike birds being found is closest to the first bird?
NYT > Home Page By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 2011
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That project has led him to his next adventure: canoeing on the Amazon River in October to study a strange, dinosaurlike bird called the hoatzin.
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You know, they always talk about newspapers being a dinosaur and anything non-new media, you know, being dinosaurlike.
Marketplace 2009
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Then we heard an animal call like a distorted, amplified amateur trumpet blast and turned and beheld through the doorway an armed Karen warrior seated atop the immense, dinosaurlike head of a five-ton cow elephant.
totse.com 2008
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That stain had not been evident to him until his first meeting with Dr. Ree, whose predatory, dinosaurlike appearance the captain had found intensely disturbing—at least at the beginning of his working relationship with Titan’s Pahkwathanh CMO, nearly three years ago.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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