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Brontosaur

noun
1.
Huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic.  Synonyms: apatosaur, apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaurus, thunder lizard.



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... The mounted brontosaur in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, will enable one better to appreciate the size of these giants of the ancient world. This typical specimen, though not the largest found, is sixty-seven feet long and stands ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
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... vengeance-prompted satire upon the magistrate in the play: result, the young Shakespeare was a wild, wild, wild, oh, SUCH a wild young scamp, and that gratuitous slander is established for all time! It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet. We had nine bones, and we built the rest of him out of plaster of Paris. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
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