No, dinosaurs are not lizards.
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Secret of saurus rock
The word "saurus" comes from the Greek σαῦρος(sauros) and means "lizard". Dinosaur literally means "terrible lizard"
The Apatosaurus. Apato (Thunder) - Saurus (Lizard).
You jokes should be as below: What do you call a blind dinosaur? I-don't-think-he-saurus.
The nickname for Arsenal is the Gunners. The 'saurus' part was made up so they can have a dinosaur-like mascot.
Plateosaurus was a primitive sauropod (four legged, long necked, herbivorous dinosaur). They existed between 214 and 204 million years ago.
Nissan Saurus was created in 1987.
Elops saurus was created in 1766.
tyrannosaurus rex
The dinosaur who's name means tyrant lizard king is tyrannosaurus rex; tyranno meaning "tyrant", saurus meaning "lizard", and rex meaning "king".
based on grammar, this isn't even a question. Saurus is a suffix maybe they mean "what does the suffix 'saurus' mean. brontasaurus means thunder lizard. so saurus is either thunder or lizard. and given that it also exists in the word "dinasaur" it probably means lizard.