Definitions for dinosaur

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dinosaur di·no·saur

Spelling: [dahy-nuh-sawr]

IPA: /ˈdaɪ nəˌsɔr/

Dinosaur is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 441 anagrams from letters in dinosaur (adinorsu).

Definitions for dinosaur

noun

1. any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
2. something that is unwieldy in size, anachronistically outmoded, or unable to adapt to change:

Origin of dinosaur

New Latin Dinosaurus (1841), originally a genus name. See dino-, -saur

Examples for dinosaur

Unlike figure skating, where Russia's Evgeni Plushenko is considered a dinosaur at 31, the age of Olympic curlers is more varied.

This dinosaur family, once common in China, eventually evolved into the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.

The people behind a prank TV show tricked a man into thinking he was being chased by a dinosaur.

I don't ever want to see or taste a dinosaur steak again, he thought.

The teeth of this horned dinosaur resemble those of the Megalosaur.

The only complete skeleton of a dinosaur ever found was taken out in 1909.

But they did not meet fairly, head to head, as the dinosaur intended.

In 1993, adults and kids alike were dressing as Barney the dinosaur.

The 68-million-year-old remnants of dinosaur feet were pushed upward by tectonic activity.

Altogether, Triceratops is very different to any other dinosaur.