Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large herbivorous prosauropod dinosaur of the genus Plateosaurus of the Triassic Period, having a long neck and tail and a small head with leaf-shaped teeth.
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- noun Any
herbivorous dinosaur of the family Plateosauridae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, genus name : Greek platus, plate-, wide, broad, flat (from the broad, robust nature of the bones of the type specimen ); see plat- in Indo-European roots + Greek sauros, lizard.]
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Life's Time Capsule: me, 3D and Plateosaurus... davidmaas 2009
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Archive 2009-10-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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Dinosaurs: The 17 dinosaurs in the show include a plateosaurus, a stegosaurus, an allosaurus, a brachiosaurus, an ornithocheirus, an ankylosaurus, a torosaurus, a Tyrannosaurus rex, a baby T-rex, utahraptors and a liliensternus.
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