megalosaurus

«megalosaurus» in Mova's school dictionary: Megalosaurus was a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (Megalosaurus, megalosauruses)

meaning for a pupil

1) Megalosaurus was a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now England about 166 million years ago. tree →

2) It was the first dinosaur ever given a scientific name, in 1824. tree →

sense in the lessons

Met in science and history lessons about fossils and the first dinosaur discoveries in Oxford.

examples

• Megalosaurus walked on two legs. tree →
• Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur to be named. tree →
• Its bones were found near Oxford. tree →
• Megalosaurus means «great lizard». tree →
• Charles Dickens mentioned a Megalosaurus in one of his books. tree →
• Megalosaurus had sharp, curved teeth. tree →

note

Name of a kind of dinosaur, often written with a capital M. Plural is rare: megalosauruses. Old pictures showed it on four legs; we now know it walked on two.

In the corpora

• The first dinosaur to be scientifically named was Megalosaurus, in England in 1824.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «megalosaurus» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.