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# apatosaurus

noun (an apatosaurus, apatosauruses or apatosauri; as a genus name Apatosaurus)

«apatosaurus» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

An apatosaurus was a huge plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck and long tail, which lived in North America about 150 million years ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apatosaurus/#m1)

### In the lessons

Used in science and dinosaur lessons, museums and story books. It was for a long time known as «brontosaurus»; scientists now treat Brontosaurus as a separate but close relative.

### Examples

- The apatosaurus was as long as two buses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apatosaurus/#x1)
- Apatosaurus ate leaves from tall trees and low plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apatosaurus/#x2)
- We saw an apatosaurus skeleton at the museum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apatosaurus/#x3)
- Apatosaurus lived in the Jurassic period. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apatosaurus/#x4)
- Its long tail may have cracked like a whip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apatosaurus/#x5)
- An apatosaurus weighed as much as several elephants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apatosaurus/#x6)

### Note

Pronounced a-PAT-oh-SOR-us. Name means «deceptive lizard». As a scientific genus name it starts with a capital and is often in italics: Apatosaurus. Myth: the old idea that it lived in water to hold up its weight is wrong; it lived on land. Dinosaurs died out long before humans lived.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «apatosaurus» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apatosaurus/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«apatosaurus» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/apatosaurus.html) on Mova free.