megalosaurus

Questions about megalosaurus

What does megalosaurus mean?

megalosaurus means "gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe".

How many syllables are in megalosaurus?

megalosaurus has 5 syllables and divides as me-ga-lo-sau-rus 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 megalosaurus?

Close synonyms include megalosaur. 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 megalosaurus a common word?

megalosaurus 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.