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dinosaur

Definition

  • noun: one of many reptiles that lived on Earth millions of years ago
  • noun: any of a group (Dinosauria) of extinct often very large chiefly terrestrial carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the Mesozoic era
  • synonyms: fossil, old fart, dinosaurian

Examples

  • The character she plays is a 'dinosaur'—a former beauty queen who is living in the past.

  • The old factory is now a rusting 'dinosaur'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) We should go. Wait, wait, wait. - Is that the geyser? - Yeah, that's where we're going. Come on. - Haven't you ever seen a dinosaur before? - Not with skin on it. He's too fast. We're not gonna make it. - Trevor, what are you doing? - That's muscovite. Same thing that we fell through before. (..)
    2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth