Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various large semiaquatic saurischian dinosaurs of the suborder Sauropoda, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
- adj. Of or relating to the suborder Sauropoda.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the Sauropoda, or having their characters.
- n. A member of the Sauropoda.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal
Etymologies
- From New Latin Sauropoda, suborder name : Greek sauros, lizard + New Latin -poda, -pod. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The evolution of manus shape in sauropod dinosaurs: implications for functional morphology, forelimb orientation, and phylogeny.”
“Sauroposeidon proteles, a new sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of Oklahoma.”
“Adaptive radiation in sauropod dinosaurs: bone histology indicates rapid evolution of giant body size through acceleration.”
“A diplodocid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of England.”
“Pes anatomy in sauropod dinosaurs: implications for functional morphology, evolution, and phylogeny.”
“In a new, as-yet-unpublished sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, it’s been claimed that the first and fifth metacarpals virtually touch on the posterior surface of the hand, but this is unique so far as we know (this animal wouldn’t have left horseshoe-shaped tracks, but subcircular ones … if the proposed interpretation is valid, and it might not be).”
“Herds of Camarasaurus, a long-necked herbivore known as a sauropod, travelled almost 200 miles from the plains to the mountains in a bid to find food and water.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“As I’ve now mentioned a few times, the detailed anatomy of the A. fragillimus vertebra (as figured by Cope) shows us that this sauropod was a diplodocoid.”
“Enough pills in me to drop a bull sauropod, and my mind won't shut down.”
“The gigantic Abydosaurus, discovered in the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, is known from four skulls and others remains (this is highly unusual, as sauropod skulls are generally among the rarest of dinosaur remains).”
"If there really was a God here, he'd have raised a hand by now."
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sauropod’.
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-opods
footed feet - Got legs?
glassopod, actinopod, adelopod, anthropod, baenopod, brachiopod, branchiopod, cephalopod, cercopod, chenopod, chilopod, condylopod and 32 more...
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Dinosaurs
Just the animals themselves. (See the other gigantic tar-pit of a list called "Words of Dinosaurology" for other terms.) Also see this list for some dinosaurs that are considered "proto-birds."
aachenosaurus, abelisaurus, abrictosaurus, abrosaurus, acanthopholis, acanthostega, achelousaurus, acrocanthosaurus, actiosaurus, adasaurus, aeolosaurus, aegyptosaurus and 589 more...
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-saur, sauro-, -saurus
lizard
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