brontosaurus

Other forms of brontosaurus

plural

brontosauruses·

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 brontosaurus

What does brontosaurus mean?

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

How many syllables are in brontosaurus?

brontosaurus has 4 syllables: bron-to-sau-rus. The stress falls on "sau". In IPA it is /ˌbɹɔntəˈsɔɹəs/.

What is another word for brontosaurus?

Close synonyms include apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, 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 brontosaurus a common word?

brontosaurus 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.

What rhymes with brontosaurus?

4 words rhyme with brontosaurus. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.