megalosaur

English

Alternative forms

• megalosaurus

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

dinosaur of the Megalosauridae family

• Catalan: megalosaure m
• French: mégalosaure (fr) m
• German: Megalosaurier m, Megalosaurus m
• Italian: megalosauro m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мегалоса̀ур m

  Roman: megalosàur (sh) m

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

megalosàur m (Cyrillic spelling мегалоса̀ур)

1. megalosaur

Declension

Declension of megalosaur

	singular	plural
nominative	megalosaur	megalosauri
genitive	megalosaura	megalosaura
dative	megalosauru	megalosaurima
accusative	megalosaura	megalosaure
vocative	megalosaure	megalosauri
locative	megalosauru	megalosaurima
instrumental	megalosaurom	megalosaurima