Definitions for Diplodocus

Diplodocus di·plod·o·cus

Spelling: [dih-plod-uh-kuh s]
IPA: /dɪˈplɒd ə kəs/

Diplodocus is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

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Definitions for Diplodocus

noun

  1. a huge herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Diplodocus, from the Late Jurassic Epoch of western North America, growing to a length of about 87 feet (26.5 meters).

Origin of Diplodocus

New Latin (1878), equivalent to diplo- diplo- + Greek dokós beam, bar, shaft

Examples for Diplodocus

The neck is relatively shorter, however, measuring eighteen feet, while in diplodocus it measures over twenty-one feet.

The diplodocus skull is widely different from the other two in size and proportions and in the characters of teeth.

The diplodocus nearly equalled the Brontosaurus in bulk and exceeded it in length.

The tricky Jarmuthians, however, mount their men on a diplodocus, a huge dinosaur some eighty-seven feet in length.

We could just detect a Zeppelin or a diplodocus as a moving speck against the surface.

"Dip," he called the enormous skeleton, though its full name was diplodocus.

The thigh-bone is enormous, measuring five feet eight inches in length, and is relatively of greater mass than that of diplodocus.

The diplodocus, meanwhile, had been looking down upon the scene with half-bewildered apprehension.

But the diplodocus is neither the largest nor heaviest of its family.

Towering thrice as high as the largest African elephant, the diplodocus was now but seventy-five yards away.

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