Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or having the characters of the Dinosauria.
  • noun One of the Dinosauria. Also deinosaurian.

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  • adjective Pertaining to dinosaurs.
  • noun A dinosaur.

Etymologies

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From dinosaur +‎ -ian or Dinosauria.

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Examples

  • He doesn’t doubt the underlying hypothesis – that is, the dinosaurian origin of Aves, often abbreviated as BADD, Birds Are Dinosaur Descendants – at all.

    Paul Nelson: Skepticism of the dino bird hypothesis explored - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Their bill virtually wiped out funding for commercial contracts -- money that they want to waste on the old Constellation system, a discredited and dinosaurian space project based on the failed approaches of the past.

    Rick Tumlinson: The Battle for the Frontier -- A Historic Moment Rick Tumlinson 2010

  • Their bill virtually wiped out funding for commercial contracts -- money that they want to waste on the old Constellation system, a discredited and dinosaurian space project based on the failed approaches of the past.

    Rick Tumlinson: The Battle for the Frontier -- A Historic Moment Rick Tumlinson 2010

  • Otherwise, you might see dinosaurian tree gliders or something else entirely. chunkdz: This is merely an article of faith for you.

    Convergence 2008

  • Otherwise, you might see dinosaurian tree gliders or something else entirely.

    Convergence 2008

  • No clear solution presents itself at the present, only that the survival and radiation pattern could not have followed from the traditional view that it was all a simple matter of some innate dinosaurian "superiority" and competition.

    "Hallways...always..." acephalemagic 2008

  • I stayed in (too weary for eyes on me, and the autumn sky) and read "Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs" (Science, 12 September 2008), which examines the question of just how dinosaurs managed to come out of the Triassic so much better off than their crurotarsan contemporaries (non-dinosaurian archosaurs, including phytosaurs, aetosaurs, 'rauisuchians,' etc.).

    "Hallways...always..." acephalemagic 2008

  • Otherwise, you might see dinosaurian tree gliders or something else entirely.

    Convergence 2008

  • A new fossil mosasaur, one of a group of non-dinosaurian reptiles that return to marine existence, has been found by an amateur fossil hunter see?

    The Panda's Thumb: John S. Wilkins Archives 2010

  • The dinosaurian lineage that became the birds left the earth for the skies.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

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