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Examples of thunder lizard in a Sentence
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What science took away, science has returned to us: Long live the thunder lizard known by children of every age as Brontosaurus.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2015
The team ran the jaws of the embryonic thunder lizards through a CT scanner to get fine detail of the developing teeth.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Jan. 2017
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Word History
Etymology
translation of New Latin Brontosaurus
First Known Use
1960, in the meaning defined above
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“Thunder lizard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thunder%20lizard. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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