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# dinosaur

«dinosaur» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of a large group of reptiles that lived on Earth…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dinosaur, dinosaurs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dinosaur is one of a large group of reptiles that lived on Earth millions of years ago and died out; some were huge, others were small. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/#m1)

2) A dinosaur is also a person or thing that is old-fashioned and no longer useful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons we learn about dinosaurs from fossils: bones, teeth, eggs and footprints found in rocks. Some, like Tyrannosaurus rex, ate meat; others, like Diplodocus, ate plants. Most scientists think birds are living relatives of dinosaurs. Phrases: dinosaur fossil, dinosaur bones, meat-eating dinosaur, plant-eating dinosaur.

### examples

- Tyrannosaurus rex was a fierce meat-eating dinosaur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/#x1)
- We saw a huge dinosaur skeleton at the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/#x2)
- Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/#x3)
- Scientists learn about dinosaurs by studying fossils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/#x4)
- Some dinosaurs were as small as chickens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/#x5)
- Birds are related to dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/#x6)
- Grandpa jokes that his old phone is a dinosaur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/#x7)

### note

Countable: a dinosaur, dinosaurs. The name means «terrible lizard». Myths: people never lived at the same time as dinosaurs; and flying pterosaurs and swimming plesiosaurs were reptiles but not true dinosaurs.

### In the corpora

- [Crocodile ancestors lived alongside dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, and crocodiles are the closest living relatives of birds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/12/)
- [Birds, though, are the flying dinosaurs of today.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/11/)
- [Dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, more than 60 million years before any mammoth lived.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/18/)
- [Sea turtles have lived in the oceans since the time of the dinosaurs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/8/)
- [Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus had hundreds of teeth packed together to grind plants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dinosaur» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinosaur/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.