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# sauropod

noun (a sauropod, sauropods); adjective (sauropod dinosaurs)

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

## Everyday

A sauropod was a huge, plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck, a long tail, a small head and four thick legs like pillars, such as Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus and Argentinosaurus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#m1)

### In the lessons

In dinosaur lessons sauropods were the biggest animals ever to walk on land: some were longer than three buses and heavier than ten elephants. Their long necks let them reach leaves high up or sweep over a wide area without walking. They laid eggs about the size of a football. The name means «lizard foot». Phrases: «long-necked sauropods», «sauropod footprints», «a herd of sauropods».

### Examples

- Diplodocus was a sauropod with a whip-like tail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x1)
- Sauropods were the largest animals ever to walk on land. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x2)
- We saw sauropod footprints in the rock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x3)
- A sauropod's head was tiny for its giant body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x4)
- Sauropods swallowed leaves without chewing them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x5)
- Brachiosaurus was a sauropod that could reach the treetops. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauropod/#x6)

### Note

Plural «sauropods». Say SORE-uh-pod. Trap: the blue whale (living today, in the sea) is heavier than any sauropod we know. Sauropods were not the same as the «Brontosaurus» of old books, although Brontosaurus is a sauropod name that scientists have recently brought back.

## On Mova

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