dinosaurlike

English

Etymology

From dinosaur +‎ -like.

Adjective

dinosaurlike (comparative more dinosaurlike, superlative most dinosaurlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a dinosaur.
   • 2009 March 28, James Gordon, Jack Horner, “Which comes first? The dinosaur or the egg?”, in The Globe and Mail‎^[1]:

     No one is ready to let an embryo experiment hatch yet. But when that point is reached, when the plan is to have a fully formed dinosaurlike chick hatch, then the experiment will come under review boards that deal with animal welfare.

   • 2023 July 6, Massimo Sandal, “How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate”, in Scientific American‎^[2]:

     Biologists and artists later proposed alternatives, albeit fanciful, that were more plausibly dinosaurlike and less biased towards the form of our own species.