Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dinosaurians the species of which were of gigantic size; the type of the family Atlantosauridæ.
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There was brontosaurus, and atlantosaurus, and hydrosaurus, and iguanodon, -- lizards, you know, not like these little black fellows that run about in the pulverized feldspar here, but chaps eighty or a hundred feet long, and twenty or thirty high; and turtles, as big as a house. "
The Golden Fleece 1896
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There was brontosaurus, and atlantosaurus, and hydrosaurus, and iguanodon, -- lizards, you know, not like these little black fellows that run about in the pulverized feldspar here, but chaps eighty or a hundred feet long, and twenty or thirty high; and turtles, as big as a house. "
The Golden Fleece, a romance Julian Hawthorne 1890
chained_bear commented on the word atlantosaurus
"Of dubious genus."
September 3, 2008