dinosaurlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dinosaur +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

dinosaurlike (comparative more dinosaurlike, superlative most dinosaurlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dinosaur.
    • 2009 March 28, James Gordon, Jack Horner, “Which comes first? The dinosaur or the egg?”, in The Globe and Mail[1]:
      No one is ready to let an embryo experiment hatch yet. But when that point is reached, when the plan is to have a fully formed dinosaurlike chick hatch, then the experiment will come under review boards that deal with animal welfare.
    • 2023 July 6, Massimo Sandal, “How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate”, in Scientific American[2]:
      Biologists and artists later proposed alternatives, albeit fanciful, that were more plausibly dinosaurlike and less biased towards the form of our own species.