brontosaurus
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Related to brontosauruses: Apatosaurus excelsus
brontosaurus
, brontosaur any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
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Brontosaurus
[‚brän·tə′sȯr·əs] (paleontology)
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