Parasaurolophus
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Parasaurolophus, a herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of what is now North America that walked both as a biped and a quadruped.
"Forty-eight hours after a single announcement on the 353rd broadcast of the Greater Sinclair Minstrels, one million dinosaur stamp books were distributed through 30,000 Sinclair Dealers. So many additional requests were received that another two million albums were printed and distributed. Only an outstanding program could secure so tremendous a response—even with the aid of brontosauri, parasaurolophi and other long departed dinosaurs."
Example
More examples"Forty-eight hours after a single announcement on the 353rd broadcast of the Greater Sinclair Minstrels, one million dinosaur stamp books were distributed through 30,000 Sinclair Dealers. So many additional requests were received that another two million albums were printed and distributed. Only an outstanding program could secure so tremendous a response—even with the aid of brontosauri, parasaurolophi and other long departed dinosaurs."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Parasaurolophus; see there for more.
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