dinosaur: [19] Dinosaur means literally ‘terrible lizard’ (something of a misnomer, since dinosaurs are not particularly closely related to modern lizards). The word was coined around 1840 from Greek deinós ‘terrible’ (which goes back to the same Indo-European base, *dwei-, as produced English dire [16]) and sauros ‘lizard’ (which occurs in its Latin form saurus in the names of specific dinosaurs, such as brontosaurus and tyrannosaurus). => dire
dinosaur (n.)
1841, coined in Modern Latin by Sir Richard Owen, from comb. form of Greek deinos "terrible" (see dire) + sauros "lizard" (see -saurus). Figurative sense of "person or institution not adapting to change" is from 1952.
雙語例句
1. The fossils at Dinosaur Cove are embedded in hard sandstones.
恐龍峽谷中的化石都嵌在堅硬的砂巖中。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The largest brain possessed by any dinosaur weighed about a kilogram.
最大的恐龍腦子大約有一公斤重.
來自辭典例句
3. Have you ever seen a dinosaur?
你看見過恐龍沒有?
來自辭典例句
4. In Alberta and Saskatchewan there are many hills where dinosaur bones were found.
亞伯達和薩斯喀徹溫省的許多山區發現了恐龍化石.
來自英語晨讀30分（高一）
5. The ground floor of the museum is taken up by the skeleton of a dinosaur.