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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typi-calgenus of Dinosauria. Waldheim, 1848. Also Deinosaurus.

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Examples

  • Sebelumnya sempat dijumpai fosil burung akuatik tersebut di Selandia Baru yang berusia 61 juta tahun atau tak lama setelah kepunahan dinosaurus.

    Pinguin Purba Tak Selalu Suka Es – Netsains.Com 2007

  • That this new guy is oblivious to that fact makes you wonder about the dinosaurus on the hiring committee.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Comity 2006

  • They told him that about a hundred miles to the north, in a valley in the mountains, the dinosaurus still existed, alive, and that no man dare go there.

    Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys 1878

  • Pa protested, and said he was an old showman who had come to the valley looking for the supposed-to-be - extinct dinosaurus, to capture one for the show, and the leader of the gang said he was the only dinosaurus there was, but he hadn't been captured.

    Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys 1878

  • Bill, who had told the story, was the only man who had ever been there, and the only man living that had seen a live dinosaurus.

    Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys 1878

  • After the cowboys and the scientists had tried to get Pa to make his will before he went, and got the addresses where Pa wanted our remains sent to in case of our being found dried up on the prairie, and our bones polished by wolves, we were on the move, and Pa was so happy you would think he had already found a live dinosaurus, and had him in a cage.

    Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys 1878

  • I tell you, I am going to see a live dinosaurus, or bust.

    Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys 1878

  • Finally we got up on a high ridge, and a beautiful, fertile valley was unfolded to our view, and Bill, the cowboy who had had his herd of steers eaten by the dinosaurus, said that was the place, and he began to shiver like he had the ague.

    Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys 1878

  • Pa got younger every day, but he yearned to be released and would look for hours down the dinosaurus valley, hoping to see soldiers or circus men who might hear of our capture, charging down the opposite hills and up the valley to our rescue, but nobody ever came, and Pa felt like Robinson Crusoe on the island.

    Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys 1878

  • The leader asked Pa about how much he thought his friends at the east could raise to get him out, and when Pa found he was in the hands of bandits, and that the dinosaurus mine was salted, and he had been made a fool of, he said to me: "Hennery, now, honest, between man and man, wouldn't this skin you?"

    Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys 1878

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