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Definition of Brontosaur

1. Noun. Huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic.

Definition of Brontosaur

1. Noun. An apatosaur. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brontosaur

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brontosaur

Literary usage of Brontosaur

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

1. The Ship-dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine (1910)
"We have biblical authority f6r the giants, and I have seen a brontosaur in the New York Museum that seemed to go with stones of about that size. ..."

2. Mark Twain: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"He contemplated the meteorites and the brontosaur, and lost himself in strange and marvelous imaginings concerning the far reaches of time and space whence ..."

3. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"3 and 4) all display such similarity as one would expect in a young animal of the brontosaur type. In fact, .upon the one occasion in which Professor Marsh ..."

4. The Lure of the Mediterranean: The Ship Dwellers: a Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine (1911)
"We have biblical authority for the giants, and I have seen a brontosaur in the New York Museum that seemed to go with stones of about that size. ..."

5. What is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain (1919)
"It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"... to the brontosaur, from the stars to the laws of social development. The end of the world. 6+267 P- front, pis. D NY, Dutton $2.50 п. ..."

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