diplodocus
pronunciation
How to pronounce diplodocus in British English:
UK [dɪˈplɒdəkəs]
How to pronounce diplodocus in American English:
US [dɪˈplɑdəkəs]
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- Noun:
- huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America
Word Origin
- diplodocus (n.)
- 1884, coined in Modern Latin in 1878 by U.S. paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) from Greek diploos "double" (see diploid) + dokos "a beam." So called for the peculiar structure of the tail bones.
Example
- 1. A diplodocus dinosaur skeleton watches the entrance .
- 2. Sauropods like brachiosaurus and diplodocus were the biggest beasts to ever roam the earth .
- 3. The diplodocus is the longest dinosaur that was ever found !
- 4. 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 .
- 5. But if feathers truly are the diagnostic criterion , then perhaps things should be the other way round , and stegosaurus , triceratops , diplodocus , tyrannosaurus and their kin should no longer be thought of as terrible lizards , but as overweight , flightless birds .