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dinosaurs

4 definitions • 2 examples
1
a type of reptile that became extinct about 65,000,000 years ago. There were many different types of dinosaur, some of which were extremely large.
2
an old-fashioned person or thing that people no longer consider to be useful:

Examples:

This computer's a dinosaur, isn't it?
3
a reptile (= cold-blooded animal), some types of which were extremely large, that stopped existing a very long time ago
4
A dinosaur is also something that is old and that has not been able to change when conditions have changed and is therefore no longer useful:

Examples:

The old car was a gas-guzzling dinosaur and we had to get rid of it.

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