brontosaurus
pronunciation
How to pronounce brontosaurus in British English:
UK [ˌbrɒntəˈsɔ:rəs]
How to pronounce brontosaurus in American English:
US [ˌbrɑntəˈsɔrəs]
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- Noun:
- huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic
Word Origin
- brontosaurus (n.)
- 1879, Modern Latin, from Greek bronte "thunder" (perhaps from PIE imitative root *bhrem- "to growl") + -saurus. Brontes was the name of one of the Cyclopes in Greek mythology.
Example
- 1. The most famous is brontosaurus , the genus name of the sauropod dinosaur .
- 2. Not the apatosaurus formerly known as the brontosaurus .
- 3. I think I wanted to be a brontosaurus .
- 4. It was vegetarian and small than brontosaurus .
- 5. And perhaps , they are telling to that unless we wish to go the way of the brontosaurus that we better wake up and take action .