Crossword-Solution: BRONTOSAURUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Brontosaurus | n. | A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles. |
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| Dinosaur whose name means "thunder lizard" | 1 answer |
| any of a genus of large sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic | 1 answer |
| Dinosaur | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with BRONTOSAURUS (5)
That they might move faster through the soft soil, they improved upon their legs and their size increased until the world was populated with gigantic forms (which the hand-books of biology list under the names of Ichthyosaurus and Megalosaurus and Brontosaurus) who grew to be thirty to forty feet long and who could have played with elephants as a full grown cat plays with her kittens.
Upon it other pyramids clustered--like the spikes that guarded the back of the nightmare Brontosaurus.
How about molds and casts of footprints of ancient animals? A brontosaurus might have stomped along in soft, warm mud eons ago.
From them come most of the petrified remains of that great army of extinct reptiles and mammals--the three-toed horse, the sabre-toothed tiger, the brontosaurus, the fin-backed lizard, the imperial mammoth, the various dinosaurs, some of them gigantic in form and fearful in aspect--that of late years have appeared in our museums and that throw so much light upon the history of the animal life of the globe.
When the mighty brontosaurus came striding into camp, she regarded it as an acquisition, I considered it a calamity; that is a good sample of the lack of harmony that prevails in our views of things.
Quotes with BRONTOSAURUS (2)
Nexus I wrote stubbornly into the evening. At the window, a giant praying mantisrubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass, begging vacantly with pale eyes; and the commas leapt at me like wormsor miniature scythes blackened with age. the praying mantis screeched louder, his ragged jaws opening into formlessness. I walked outside; the grass hissed at my heels. Up ahead in the lapping darknesshe wobbled, magnified and absurdly green, a brontosaurus, a poet.
The brontosaurus had thirty-ton body and a two-ounce brain. The anatosaurus had two thousand teeth. Triceratops had a helmet of filled bone seven feet long. Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms and teeth like six-inch razors and it was elected President. It ate everything — dead meat, living meat, old bones —
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2022).