brontosaur

2 definitions found

brontosaur - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  brontosaur \bron`to*saur"\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. bronth` thunder +
     say^ros lizard.] (Paleon.)
     a dinosaur of the genus Brontosaurus; an individual may
     also be called a brontosaurus or an apatosaurus.
     [PJC]

brontosaur - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  brontosaur
      n 1: huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North
           America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur,
           apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard
           , Apatosaurus excelsus]