dinosaur

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. brontosaurus, etc. (see animal); old dog, relic, fossil. See oldness.

II

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. saurian sauropod, *terrible lizard, prehistoric creature, theropod.

WORD FIND

• aquatic: mosasaur

• armored, spiked: ankylosaurus

• bony fringe found on heads of some species: frill

• death: extinction

• duck-billed: hadrosaur, trachodon

• era: Mesozoic

• evidence of, geological: fossil

• giraffe-like giant: brachiosaurus

• large herbivore: brontosaurus, apatosaurus, diplodocus, iguanodon

• longest herbivore: supersaurus, seismosaurus

• meat-eating, ferocious: tyrannosaurus rex, allosaurus

• period: Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous

• plate-backed: stegosaurus

• sickle-like claw used for slahing, swift and small and famous for: velociraptor

• skull crest, known for long: parasaurolophus

• slashing: utahraptor

• tallest herbivore: ultrasaurus

• three-horned, beaklike mouth: triceratops

• winged: pterodactyl

2. relic antique, artifact, fossil, outmoded article.