apatosaurus
pronunciation
How to pronounce apatosaurus in British English:
UK [əˌpætəˈsɔːrəs]
How to pronounce apatosaurus in American English:
US [ əˌpætəˈsɔːrəs]
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- Noun:
- huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic
Word Origin
Example
- 1. Not the apatosaurus formerly known as the brontosaurus .
- 2. But even at a mere 18 tonnes , apatosaurus would still have been an awesome sight .
- 3. Description-what the apatosaurus looked like ?
- 4. Taxonomists renamed it apatosaurus in 1903 , when it was discovered that two different names referred to the same dinosaur .
- 5. Gary packard of colorado state university and his colleagues do not deny that creatures like apatosaurus , brachiosaurus and diplodocus were big-and bigger than any terrestrial mammal .