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masculine
/dinoˈsauɾjo/
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Translation
dinosaur
Word origin
A modern scientific coinage from Greek deinos ('terrible') and sauros ('lizard'), first used in 1841.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- deinos + sauros
- English cognates
- dinosaur, saurian
Grammar
Gendermasculine
Pluraldinosaurios
Examples
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My son loves dinosaurs.
esqueleto .
In the museum there is a huge dinosaur skeleton.
extinguieron .
The dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago.
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Do you know what this dinosaur ate?
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The film is about a park full of dinosaurs.
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