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Meanings
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a large meat-eating theropod dinosaur of the genus Megalosaurus, known from Middle Jurassic fossils in England
The museum mounted a megalosaurus jaw beside reconstructions of its serrated teeth.
Thesaurus
Etymology
From the New Latin genus name Megalosaurus, formed from Greek megas, stem megal- ("great"), + sauros ("lizard"), literally "great lizard." William Buckland formally named the genus in 1824.