dinosaur

IPA: dˈaɪnʌsɔr

(sciences) Any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
(colloquial) Any member of the clade Dinosauria other than birds.
(proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago.
(figuratively, colloquial) Something or someone that is very old or old-fashioned, or is not willing to change and adapt.
(figuratively, colloquial) Anything no longer in common use or practice.

Examples of "dinosaur" in Sentences

Sir Richard Owen - the man who coined the word "dinosaur."
The name dinosaur comes from the Greek words for monstrous lizard.
The replica dinosaur is almost 6 feet tall and uses tens of thousands of bricks.
The name dinosaur, meaning terrible lizard, represents an order of fossil reptiles.
The term dinosaur was invented by Sir Richard Owen in 1842 to describe a large extinct reptile.
Mick sighed dramatically, as he often did when confronted with what he called my dinosaur tendencies.
The term "dinosaur" derived from the English paleontologist Richard Owen in 1842 and in essence it means "terrible, powerful, wondrous lizard."
It was given to the Natural History Museum by renowned fossil hunter Sir Richard Owen who helped found the museum and famously coined the word "dinosaur".
It was okay as a novel (but not especially original) and fine as a film (even if it was scientifically implausible), but the threat of being eaten by a dinosaur is a hardy one, and as Transformers proved (the eighties incarnation, not the Michael Bay war crime), talking dinosaurs are fucking brilliant.