dinolike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dino +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

dinolike (comparative more dinolike, superlative most dinolike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dinosaur.
    • 2014 July 24, Meghan Rosen, “Feathered dinosaurs may have been the rule, not the exception”, in Science News[1]:
      Paleontologists had previously dug up fossil evidence of feathers that adorned dinolike birds of the Archaeopteryx genus and other more ancient avian ancestors.
    • 2014 December 16, Sarah Zielinski, “The dinosaurs in the backyard”, in Science News[2]:
      And that could mean there could one day be something even more dinolike pecking away in my friend’s backyard.