dinosaurian
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dinosaur + -ian, or Dinosauria + -an.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dinosaurian (comparative more dinosaurian, superlative most dinosaurian)
- Of, like, or pertaining to a dinosaur.
- 2009, Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia:
- From time to time another vehicle would pass us in the other direction, or a tractor would appear in front of us, scattering scales of mud from its dinosaurian rear wheels as it grumbled along the road at fifteen miles an hour.
- Alternative letter-case form of Dinosaurian.
Noun
[edit]dinosaurian (plural dinosaurians)
- A dinosaur.
- 1922 April, Cuthbert Christy, “The African Elephant, Part II”, in Journal of the African Society, volume XXI, number LXXXIII, Macmillan and co., page 194:
- They were flapping their ears, moving their great stamp-like feet up and down, grinding their teeth, slobbering with their mouths, making borborygmic gurgles and rumbles in their dinosaurian-like bodies, or throwing up their trunks or their tails.
- Alternative letter-case form of Dinosaurian.