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SAUROPOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal
Synonyms:
sauropod; sauropod dinosaur
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sauropod" is a kind of...):
saurischian; saurischian dinosaur (herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sauropod"):
apatosaur; apatosaurus; Apatosaurus excelsus; brontosaur; brontosaurus; thunder lizard (huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic)
barosaur; barosaurus (a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall)
Holonyms ("sauropod" is a member of...):
Sauropoda; suborder Sauropoda (any of the sauropod dinosaurs)
Context examples:
Paleontologists have been working to reconstitute a complete sauropod skeleton from several different specimens that have been unearthed from Angeac-Charente in the last decade — with the reconstruction now around 50 per cent complete.
(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Titanosaurian sauropods, the group that includes Rukwatitan, were herbivorous dinosaurs known for their iconic large body sizes, long necks and wide stance.
(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)
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