SAUROPOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sauropod mean? 

• SAUROPOD (noun)
  The noun SAUROPOD has 1 sense:

1. very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal

  Familiarity information: SAUROPOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAUROPOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sauropod; sauropod dinosaur

Hypernyms ("sauropod" is a kind of...):

saurischian; saurischian dinosaur (herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sauropod"):

apatosaur; apatosaurus; Apatosaurus excelsus; brontosaur; brontosaurus; thunder lizard (huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic)

barosaur; barosaurus (a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall)

Holonyms ("sauropod" is a member of...):

Sauropoda; suborder Sauropoda (any of the sauropod dinosaurs)

 Context examples 

Their rise in diversity came in the wake of the decline of another group of sauropods, the diplodocoids, which include the dinosaur Apatosaurus.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

Palaeontologists unearthed a two meters long thigh bone that belonged to a giant sauropod dinosaur around 140 million years ago.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The dinosaur, the third found in southwestern Tanzania by the scientists, is a large, long-necked titanosaur, a type of sauropod.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

The new species is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs include the largest animals ever to walk on land, but they hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

CT scans of the fossils, combined with detailed comparisons with other sauropods, revealed unique features that suggested an animal that was different from previous finds—including those from elsewhere in Africa.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

Experts believe that the thigh bone belonged to a sauropod — one of a group of long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs that include some of the largest animals to have ever walked the Earth.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Research at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, sheds the first light on the life of a young Rapetosaurus, a titanosaurian sauropod buried in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

The excavation process spanned several years, and included researchers suspended by ropes and large-scale mechanical excavators to recover one of the more complete specimens from this part of the sauropod dinosaur family tree.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

Paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, in Tanzania.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)