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dinosaur
  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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  6. Examples:
    1. “You almost never find a complete fossil of a dinosaur. In order to know what a dinosaur looked like, scientists often have to find several sets of fossils.”
      “Instead, he was increasingly seen as a dinosaur of the industry, a filmmaker desperately trying to stay afloat.”
      “The guy is a dinosaur. He doesn't know Facebook from Myspace.”
dinosaurian
  1. A dinosaur.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Dinosaurian.
dinoturbation
  1. bioturbation caused by the movements of dinosaurs
dinomaniac
  1. (informal) One who has dinomania; a dinosaur enthusiast.
  2. Synonyms:
dinosaurology
  1. (informal) The branch of paleontology that focuses on studying dinosaurs.
dinosaurologist
  1. (informal) A paleontologist who focuses on studying dinosaurs.
dinomania
  1. (informal) Enthusiasm for dinosaurs.
dinophile
  1. (informal) One who is keenly interested in dinosaurs.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For what self-respecting dinophile would want to think of his favorite stock—the carnivorous lineage known as theropods—in undignified fashion, all covered with feathers?”
dinosaurus
  1. Alternative form of dinosaur
dino
  1. (informal) dinosaur.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We're going to talk with one of the paleontologists behind the dino autopsy right as soon as we come back.”
      “Then I attended a dino symposium and was nailed by the passion and intensity that paleontologists brought to their science.”
      “So it is simply wrong to say that the feathers are just imprints added to a dino skeleton.”
dinosaurologists
  1. plural of dinosaurologist
dinosaurians
  1. plural of dinosaurian
dinomaniacs
dinosauruses
  1. plural of dinosaurus
dinophiles
dinosaurs
  1. plural of dinosaur
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Whatever brought about the massacre of the dinosaurs additionally lead to the death of almost 70 per cent of all the species on the Earth.”
      “Sometimes the BBC's whizzy technology is enough to make the, ahem, older among us feel a little like dinosaurs ourselves.”
      “I know the world and his wife loves them, but I'm thoroughly sick of dinosaurs.”
dinos
  1. plural of dino
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Some of the dinos seen are the brontosaurus, vicious raptors, and tyrannosaurus rex.”
      “A set of prehistoric footprints, said to show meat-eating dinosaurs hunting vegetarian dinos, has just been recreated in a detailed 3-D model.”
      “Many paleontologists argue that brontosaurs and other huge dinos really didn't lumber and weren't stupid.”
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