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TITANOSAUR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the southern hemisphere

Synonyms:

titanosaur; titanosaurian

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("titanosaur" is a kind of...):

dinosaur (any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "titanosaur"):

genus Argentinosaurus (enormous dinosaur of the middle Cretaceous found in Argentina)

Holonyms ("titanosaur" is a member of...):

genus Titanosaurus; Titanosaurus (genus of herbivorous dinosaurs flourishing during the Cretaceous in South America)

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