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# megalosaurus

noun (Megalosaurus, megalosauruses)

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

## Everyday

1. Megalosaurus was a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now England about 166 million years ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#m1)
2. It was the first dinosaur ever given a scientific name, in 1824. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#m2)

### In the lessons

Met in science and history lessons about fossils and the first dinosaur discoveries in Oxford.

### Examples

- Megalosaurus walked on two legs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x1)
- Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur to be named. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x2)
- Its bones were found near Oxford. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x3)
- Megalosaurus means «great lizard». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x4)
- Charles Dickens mentioned a Megalosaurus in one of his books. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x5)
- Megalosaurus had sharp, curved teeth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/megalosaurus/#x6)

### Note

Name of a kind of dinosaur, often written with a capital M. Plural is rare: megalosauruses. Old pictures showed it on four legs; we now know it walked on two.

## On Mova

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