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# megalosaurus

«megalosaurus» in Mova's school dictionary: **Megalosaurus was a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Megalosaurus, megalosauruses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Megalosaurus was a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now England about 166 million years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#m1)

2) It was the first dinosaur ever given a scientific name, in 1824. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in science and history lessons about fossils and the first dinosaur discoveries in Oxford.

### examples

- Megalosaurus walked on two legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x1)
- Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur to be named. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x2)
- Its bones were found near Oxford. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x3)
- Megalosaurus means «great lizard». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x4)
- Charles Dickens mentioned a Megalosaurus in one of his books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x5)
- Megalosaurus had sharp, curved teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x6)

### note

Name of a kind of dinosaur, often written with a capital M. Plural is rare: megalosauruses. Old pictures showed it on four legs; we now know it walked on two.

### In the corpora

- [The first dinosaur to be scientifically named was Megalosaurus, in England in 1824.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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