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Dinosaur translates to "terrible lizard."
Kenya Carter
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∙ 14y agoDinosaur is a main category for hundreds of different species ranging from flying reptiles, swimming reptiles to walking reptiles. It comes from two greek words "deinos" meaning tyrant/terrible and "sauros" meaning lizard, even though they were reptiles.
The term dinosaur means "terrible lizard" and comes from the Greek.
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∙ 15y agoI believe it means "terrible lizard"
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What did the world dinosaur mean?
I think you mean word but dinosaur means giant lizard.
What does the word dinosaur mean in latin?
dangerious lizard
What does the word iguanodosaurus mean?
I don't think there's such a word as iguanodosaurus. If you mean Giganotosaurus it's a type of dinosaur.
The word dinosaur comes from two greek words. What do they mean?
Terrible Lizard
What do the two halves of the word dinosaur mean and from which ancient language do they come?
"Deinos" and "sauros," the root words of dinosaur, are both Greek words. They mean "terrible" and "lizard," respectively.
What dinosaur are in the dinosaur alphbet?
The word dinosaur's means "terrible lizard".
What does the word emerged mean?
The word emerged means to come out into view, as from hiding. "Suddenly, the dinosaur emerged from his egg".
What does the word kong long mean in Chinese?
恐龙 [kǒng lóng] means dinosaur
How do you say dinosaur in Hawaiian?
There is no native Hawaiian word for Dinosaur.
What does carnivorous dinosaur mean?
It mean that this dinosaur eats meat like other dinosaurs.
When did Richard Owen invent the word dinosaur?
Richard Owen invented the dinosaur word in the 1930's.
How do use the word dinosaur in a sentence?
The dinosaur ate his prey slowly.
