dinosaur
part of speech
noun (a dinosaur, dinosaurs)
meaning for a pupil
1) A dinosaur is one of a large group of reptiles that lived on Earth millions of years ago and died out; some were huge, others were small. tree →
2) A dinosaur is also a person or thing that is old-fashioned and no longer useful. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons we learn about dinosaurs from fossils: bones, teeth, eggs and footprints found in rocks. Some, like Tyrannosaurus rex, ate meat; others, like Diplodocus, ate plants. Most scientists think birds are living relatives of dinosaurs. Phrases: dinosaur fossil, dinosaur bones, meat-eating dinosaur, plant-eating dinosaur.
examples
- Tyrannosaurus rex was a fierce meat-eating dinosaur. tree →
- We saw a huge dinosaur skeleton at the museum. tree →
- Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. tree →
- Scientists learn about dinosaurs by studying fossils. tree →
- Some dinosaurs were as small as chickens. tree →
- Birds are related to dinosaurs. tree →
- Grandpa jokes that his old phone is a dinosaur. tree →
note
Countable: a dinosaur, dinosaurs. The name means «terrible lizard». Myths: people never lived at the same time as dinosaurs; and flying pterosaurs and swimming plesiosaurs were reptiles but not true dinosaurs.
In the corpora
- Crocodile ancestors lived alongside dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, and crocodiles are the closest living relatives of birds.
- Birds, though, are the flying dinosaurs of today.
- Dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, more than 60 million years before any mammoth lived.
- Sea turtles have lived in the oceans since the time of the dinosaurs.
- Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus had hundreds of teeth packed together to grind plants.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dinosaur» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.