brontosaurus

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I would totally drop $500 on a "ride the brontosaurus" ride.

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huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic

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noun

huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic

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noun

huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic

See also: apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur

Example sentences

I would totally drop $500 on a "ride the brontosaurus" ride.

And if it did try, you're just as dead from an angry brontosaurus as you are from an angry T-Rex.

Do you have a brontosaurus that is sufficiently clean?

Scientists had no problem renaming the brontosaurus so it shouldn't be as hard as it sounds.

They've found like eight sauropods larger than the brontosaurus since I was a kid in the 90's. And now brontosaurus isn't even a species, they changed it to a genus!

See "birds are dinosuars" and "the brontosaurus never existed".

" the right answer would be Yes even if brontosaurus as a category of dinosaurs had been removed.

A brontosaurus, unlike a velociraptor, could easily kill you without trying.

Having a second name for something that already existed - not to mention having the 'brontosaurus' being made from some bogus parts, eg. a skull of another dinosaur - is more than a simple naming error.

It's sort of like the rebellion against whether Pluto is the ninth planet or not. So many people just like the name, brontosaurus, that there's been a consensus to squeeze it back into a usable, valid place that doesn't leave the world confused and dismayed.

More accurately, one could say something like "the dinosaur popularly known as brontosaurus, is actually a aptosaurus with a different head..." But as a headline, it lacks punch.

Remember what happened with apatosaurus / brontosaurus?This is a practice that most people will agree without persuasion is "fair", that certain people care about a great deal, and that costs society nothing.