apatosaur

Other forms of apatosaur

plural

apatosaurs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about apatosaur

What does apatosaur mean?

apatosaur means "huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic".

How many syllables are in apatosaur?

apatosaur has 4 syllables and divides as a-pa-to-saur under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for apatosaur?

Close synonyms include apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apatosaur a common word?

apatosaur is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.