GENUS BRONTOSAURUS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

genus Apatosaurus; genus Brontosaurus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Brontosaurus" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "genus Brontosaurus"):

apatosaur; apatosaurus; Apatosaurus excelsus; brontosaur; brontosaurus; thunder lizard (huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic)

Holonyms ("genus Brontosaurus" is a member of...):

Sauropoda; suborder Sauropoda (any of the sauropod dinosaurs)