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Definition of Brontosaurs
1. brontosaur [n] - See also: brontosaur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brontosaurs
Literary usage of Brontosaurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"... more or less remotely akin to the slender, leaping dinosaurs. Between the
ponderous brontosaurs (Fig. 372) and the airy pterodactyls (Fig. ..."
2. A College Text-book of Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1909)
"Between the ponderous brontosaurs (Fig. 493) :ind the pterosaurs (Fig. 495), the
Jurassic saurians present the strangest contrasts. ..."
3. The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic Mechanism by Carl Snyder (1907)
"... purpose or design in the appearance of the vast and uncouth lizards of the
reptilian epoch—the gigantic brontosaurs that paddled about in the marshes, ..."
4. Christ and Science: Jesus Christ Regarded as the Centre of Science by Francis Henry Smith (1906)
"Yet the geological museum discloses actual forms of tremendous beasts, — Dinosaurs,
Brontosaurs and the like, of such size and horrible combination as make ..."
5. The Ship-dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine (1910)
"Cain would use brontosaurs for such work as that. There were plenty of them
loafing about, and I can imagine nothing more impressive than Cain standing on a ..."
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