apatosaurus excelsus

Questions about apatosaurus excelsus

What does apatosaurus excelsus mean?

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

What is another word for apatosaurus excelsus?

Close synonyms include apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard. 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 apatosaurus excelsus a common word?

apatosaurus excelsus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.