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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

  • (..) - A disease? - No, you've got it all backwards. AIDS, the Ebola virus, on an evolutionary scale, they're newborns. This virus walked the planet long before the dinosaurs. Walked? Your aliens, your little green men, arrived here millions of years ago. Those that didn't leave (..)
    1998 The X Files