Megalosaur

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A carnivorous dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.

    "As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill."

  2. 2
    gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe wordnet

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giant lizardgiant reptilelarge carnivorous dinosaurlarge reptilelarge theropodmegalosaurus

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"As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill."

Etymology

From megalo- + -saur.

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