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# sauropod

«sauropod» in Mova's school dictionary: **A sauropod was a huge, plant-eating dinosaur with a very…** — 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 sauropod, sauropods); adjective (sauropod dinosaurs)

### meaning for a pupil

A sauropod was a huge, plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck, a long tail, a small head and four thick legs like pillars, such as Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus and Argentinosaurus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In dinosaur lessons sauropods were the biggest animals ever to walk on land: some were longer than three buses and heavier than ten elephants. Their long necks let them reach leaves high up or sweep over a wide area without walking. They laid eggs about the size of a football. The name means «lizard foot». Phrases: «long-necked sauropods», «sauropod footprints», «a herd of sauropods».

### examples

- Diplodocus was a sauropod with a whip-like tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x1)
- Sauropods were the largest animals ever to walk on land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x2)
- We saw sauropod footprints in the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x3)
- A sauropod's head was tiny for its giant body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x4)
- Sauropods swallowed leaves without chewing them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x5)
- Brachiosaurus was a sauropod that could reach the treetops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x6)

### note

Plural «sauropods». Say SORE-uh-pod. Trap: the blue whale (living today, in the sea) is heavier than any sauropod we know. Sauropods were not the same as the «Brontosaurus» of old books, although Brontosaurus is a sauropod name that scientists have recently brought back.

### In the corpora

- [Sauropod bones had air pockets inside, as birds' bones do, which made the skeleton lighter and helped breathing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/7/)
- [Sauropods did not chew; they stripped leaves, swallowed them whole and let their huge gut break the plants down slowly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/9/)
- [Trackways show some sauropods walked in groups, with young ones in the middle; footprints are trace fossils that show behaviour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/13/)
- [Only the blue whale, which is held up by water, is heavier than the biggest sauropods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/16/)
- [Lily later finds a girl at museum club who can name every sauropod (the long-necked dinosaurs).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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