apatosaurus
part of speech
noun (an apatosaurus, apatosauruses or apatosauri; as a genus name Apatosaurus)
meaning for a pupil
An apatosaurus was a huge plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck and long tail, which lived in North America about 150 million years ago. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in science and dinosaur lessons, museums and story books. It was for a long time known as «brontosaurus»; scientists now treat Brontosaurus as a separate but close relative.
examples
- The apatosaurus was as long as two buses. tree →
- Apatosaurus ate leaves from tall trees and low plants. tree →
- We saw an apatosaurus skeleton at the museum. tree →
- Apatosaurus lived in the Jurassic period. tree →
- Its long tail may have cracked like a whip. tree →
- An apatosaurus weighed as much as several elephants. tree →
note
Pronounced a-PAT-oh-SOR-us. Name means «deceptive lizard». As a scientific genus name it starts with a capital and is often in italics: Apatosaurus. Myth: the old idea that it lived in water to hold up its weight is wrong; it lived on land. Dinosaurs died out long before humans lived.
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