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Definition of Megalosaurus
1. Noun. Gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe.
Generic synonyms: Bird-footed Dinosaur, Theropod, Theropod Dinosaur
Group relationships: Genus Megalosaurus
Medical Definition of Megalosaurus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Megalosaurus
Literary usage of Megalosaurus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames by John Phillips (1871)
"The fibula of megalosaurus is not sufficiently known, but it must have ...
The hind foot of megalosaurus is known only in respect of the astragalus (already ..."
2. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1836)
"megalosaurus.* THE megalosaurus, as its name implies, was a Lizard, of great
size, of which, although no skeleton has yet been found entire, so many perfect ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"One of ti known of them is the megalosaurus, an animal of about tl, size and way
of living as the iguanodon, marching or mostly on its hind-legs. ..."
4. Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley (1826)
"Fossil megalosaurus and Didelphis. , " The bones ofthe megalosaurus occur at
Stonesfield, in strata of an oolitic limestone slate, which is wrought for ..."
5. Life History of Our Planet by William Dickey Gunning (1876)
"For megalosaurus we draw a hind-limb, large, long, and terminated in a ...
For megalosaurus, therefore, we should draw a comparatively small head and neck ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"In the teeth of crocodiles, and, as I believe, is considered to be the case in
megalosaurus, but from about their middle they contract, or become narrower, ..."
7. A New System of Geology: In which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and by Andrew Ure (1829)
"Mr. Mantell of Lewes in Sussex, has discovered megalosaurus' bones of enormous
dimensions, and among others, fragments of thigh bones, the largest of which ..."
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