dinosaur

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/ˈdaɪnəsɔː(ɹ)/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An extinct reptile that lived millions of years ago.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago, as well as the stem-mammal Dimetrodon.

Examples

  • He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.

  • I bought this computer one year ago and it's already a dinosaur.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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Also pronounced

  • /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/
  • /ˈdʌɪnəsɔːɹ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.

  2. Any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, including its sole surviving lineage: Neornithes.

  3. Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.

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In context

  • Despite what some cartoons portray, no humans were around when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

  • Pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, icthyosaurs — I don't know, they're all dinosaurs to me!

  • Many people love their backyard birds, but some of us may not realize that those feathery friends are also literally dinosaurs, in a biologically accurate sense of that word.

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Origin

noun

From Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “terrible, awesome, mighty, fearfully great”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”). Coined as Dinosaur(s) and Dinosauria by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1841/1842.