noun
- a large, long-necked dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic period and fed on plants
Usage: paleontology
Examples
- The brontosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs that ever lived.
- Children love learning about the massive brontosaurus and its long tail.
- The museum’s brontosaurus skeleton stretched across the entire hall.
- Scientists now classify the brontosaurus as a type of sauropod dinosaur.
- The brontosaurus used its long neck to reach high vegetation.
- Fossils of the brontosaurus have been found in the western United States.