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词汇 brontosaurus
释义 brontosaurus
noun[ C ]
(also Brontosaurus)uk /ˌbrɒn.təˈsɔː.rəs/ us /ˌbrɑːn.t̬əˈsɔː.rəs/pluralbrontosauruses or or brontosauriuk /ˌbrɒn.təˈsɔː.raɪ/ us /ˌbrɑːn.t̬əˈsɔː.raɪ/
a very large dinosaur that ate plants and had four legs, a very long neck and tail and a small head. Brontosaurus is now called apatosaurus: 雷龙(恐龙的一种)
Brachiosaurus was even heavier than Brontosaurus.
Marsh put the wrong skull on a skeleton of Apatosaurus and declared it a new genus, Brontosaurus.
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The bones a type of long-necked brontosaurus are now in a vault at the Science Museum.
Scientists identified fossils and said, 'Oops those brontosaurus are really all apatosaurus.'
The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Prehistory
anatosaurus
apatosaurus
Australopithecus
brachiosaurus
broch
Holocene
ice age
ichthyosaur
iguanodon
Jurassic
Phanerozoic
pictograph
Pleistocene
Pliocene
post-glacial
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Silurian
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stegosaurus
stone-age

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It is like encouraging the production of brontosauri.
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The brontosaurus has gone; the sabre-toothed tiger has gone; and so has the mammoth.
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Perhaps the brontosaurus perished because it could not be amended by statutory instrument.
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I did not think that we were all brontosauruses in this place.
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It is better than being a brontosaurus.
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But for those of more precocious intellects, it offers a little something extra to chew on besides rock-smacking slapstick and a brontosaurus burger.
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For the past four years, he has been trying to assemble the skeleton of a "brontosaurus" but is missing one bone: the intercostal clavicle.
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Meanwhile, a brontosaurus abandons one of her eggs.
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The exhibit included a two-ton animated model of a brontosaurus.
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He wanted to go back to time to get a cave boy and a young dinosaur, causing a brontosaurus to accidentally go to the future and get revenge.
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Brontosaurus had organized numerous festivals, propagation tours and competitions and has managed to increase awareness about the numerous ecological problems.
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