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What is a dinosaur?

What is a dinosaur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct. [from c. 1840]
  2. (proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago.
  3. (figuratively, colloquial) A person or organisation that is very old, has very old-fashioned views, or is not willing to change and adapt.
  4. (figuratively, colloquial) Anything no longer in common use or practice.
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I still get invites but I feel like a dinosaur and a bit of a has-been now.
The decapod remains were located between 0.5 and 3.0 m from a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur caudal vertebra.
Terrestrial deposits contain fossils ranging from Paleocene leaf imprints to Cretaceous dinosaur remains.
All of this leads the dinosaur kids on a wild adventure that culminates in a climactic confrontation on top of a volcano.
Everything from the smallest dino to the biggest predator seems to become an appetizer for some other species of dinosaur during the movie.
He was also able to travel to Bloemfontein to compare the fossils with those of an early dinosaur in the National Museum.

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