megalosaur

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From megalo- + -saur.

Noun

megalosaur (plural megalosaurs)

  1. A carnivorous dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.
    • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1853, →OCLC:
      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.

Translations

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meɡalosǎur/
  • Hyphenation: me‧ga‧lo‧sa‧ur

Noun

megalosàur m (Cyrillic spelling мегалоса̀ур)

  1. megalosaur

Declension

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