megalosaurus

Meanings

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   noun

   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.

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.

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