di・no・sau・ri・anの英語

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌdʌɪnə(ʊ)ˈsɔːɹɪən/

形容詞

dinosaurian (comparative more dinosaurian, superlative most dinosaurian)

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a dinosaur.
   • 1922 April, Christy, Cuthbert, “The African Elephant, Part II”, in Journal of the African Society, volume XXI, number LXXXIII, Macmillan and co., page 194:

     They were flapping their ears, moving their great stamp-like feet up and down, grinding their teeth, slobbering with their mouths, making borborygmic gurgles and rumbles in their dinosaurian-like bodies, or throwing up their trunks or their tails.

   • 2009, Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia:

     From time to time another vehicle would pass us in the other direction, or a tractor would appear in front of us, scattering scales of mud from its dinosaurian rear wheels as it grumbled along the road at fifteen miles an hour.