Definition of Genus Brontosaurus

1. Noun. Large quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaurs with very long neck and tail; late Jurassic.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Brontosaurus

genus Brachychiton
genus Brachycome
genus Brachystegia
genus Bradypus
genus Brama
genus Branchiobdella
genus Branta
genus Brasenia
genus Brevoortia
genus Brickelia
genus Brodiaea
genus Bromus
genus Brontosaurus (current term)
genus Broussonetia
genus Browallia
genus Browmius
genus Bruchus
genus Bruckenthalia
genus Brugmansia
genus Brunfelsia
genus Brya
genus Bryanthus
genus Bryonia
genus Bryum
genus Bubalus
genus Bubo
genus Bubulcus

Literary usage of Genus Brontosaurus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"In December of the same year the genus Brontosaurus was proposed upon an unusually ... The genus Brontosaurus was based chiefly upon the structure of the ..."

2. Publication by Field Columbian Museum, Field Museum of Natural History (1907)
"In December of the same year the genus Brontosaurus was proposed upon an unusually ... The genus Brontosaurus was based chiefly upon the structure of the ..."

3. Bulletin by Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique (1882)
"If the ossification of the sternum were permanently arrested at this stage, it would afford almost precisely the structure seen in the genus Brontosaurus; ..."

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