Dinosaur

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various extinct, often gigantic, carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia that were chiefly terrestrial and existed during the Mesozoic Era.
  • n. A relic of the past: "living dinosaurs of the world of vegetation” ( John Olmsted).
  • n. One that is hopelessly outmoded or unwieldy: "The old, big-city teaching hospital is a dinosaur” ( Peggy Breault).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various extinct reptiles belonging to the Dinosauria, existing between about 230 million and 65 million years ago.
  • n. A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.
  • n. Anything that is no longer in common use or practice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the Dinosauria.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of the Dinosauria. Also spelled deinosaur.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era
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