[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/diplodocus.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / diplodocus

[← D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/D/)

# diplodocus

«diplodocus» in Mova's school dictionary: **Diplodocus was a huge plant-eating dinosaur with a very…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a diplodocus, diplodocuses; Diplodocus)

### meaning for a pupil

Diplodocus was a huge plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck and an even longer whip-like tail that lived about 150 million years ago in North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons, Diplodocus is a sauropod, one of the longest land animals ever, about 25 metres long. It swallowed leaves and plants without chewing. A famous cast skeleton nicknamed Dippy stood in the Natural History Museum in London and toured the UK.

### examples

- Diplodocus had a neck as long as a bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x1)
- Diplodocus ate plants, not meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x2)
- Its long tail may have cracked like a whip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x3)
- Dippy the Diplodocus visited our city museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x4)
- A Diplodocus was about 25 metres long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x5)
- We drew a Diplodocus next to a giraffe to compare sizes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x6)

### note

Said dih-PLOD-uh-kus or dip-loh-DOH-kus. Often with a capital D as a genus name. Plural: diplodocuses, though people often say Diplodocus for more than one. It was not a brontosaurus, a different but related dinosaur.

### Trees and pragmatics

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