Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An apatosaurus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of huge fossil dinosaurian reptiles, notable for their small head and diminutive brain-cavity, the whole skull not exceeding some of the neck-bones in size. One species was about 50 feet long, and probably weighed 20 tons or more.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Paleon.) A genus of large sauropod American dinosaurs of the jurassic era, or an individual of that genus. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles. The genus is also called Apatosaurus, and individuals of the genus are also called brontosaurs.

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  • noun One of the largest land animals to ever walk the earth; an apatosaurus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Brontosaurus, former genus name : Greek brontē, thunder + Greek sauros, lizard.]

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From New Latin, from Ancient Greek βροντή (bronte, "thunder") +‎ -saurus

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  • Redirect: apatosaurus.

    August 31, 2008

  • Lexicon of the Brontë sisters.

    September 1, 2008

  • Heehee!

    September 1, 2008

  • (Is it really brontosauruses? Not brontosauri?)

    April 12, 2010

  • At midnight in the museum hall

    The fossils gathered for a ball

    There were no drums or saxophones,

    But just the clatter of their bones,

    A rolling, rattling, carefree circus

    Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas.

    Pterodactyls and brontosauruses

    Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses.

    Amid the mastodontic wassail

    I caught the eye of one small fossil.

    "Cheer up, sad world," he said, and winked-

    "It's kind of fun to be extinct."

    Ogden Nash (of course)

    April 13, 2010