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# diplodocus

noun (a diplodocus, diplodocuses; Diplodocus)

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

## Everyday

Diplodocus was a huge plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck and an even longer whip-like tail that lived about 150 million years ago in North America. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science and history lessons, Diplodocus is a sauropod, one of the longest land animals ever, about 25 metres long. It swallowed leaves and plants without chewing. A famous cast skeleton nicknamed Dippy stood in the Natural History Museum in London and toured the UK.

### Examples

- Diplodocus had a neck as long as a bus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x1)
- Diplodocus ate plants, not meat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x2)
- Its long tail may have cracked like a whip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x3)
- Dippy the Diplodocus visited our city museum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x4)
- A Diplodocus was about 25 metres long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x5)
- We drew a Diplodocus next to a giraffe to compare sizes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diplodocus/#x6)

### Note

Said dih-PLOD-uh-kus or dip-loh-DOH-kus. Often with a capital D as a genus name. Plural: diplodocuses, though people often say Diplodocus for more than one. It was not a brontosaurus, a different but related dinosaur.

## On Mova

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