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Any animal belonging to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct
“You almost never find a complete fossil of a dinosaur. In order to know what a dinosaur looked like, scientists often have to find several sets of fossils.”
A once-popular or influential person who is now in decline from their peak
“Instead, he was increasingly seen as a dinosaur of the industry, a filmmaker desperately trying to stay afloat.”
A person or group that is old-fashioned, typically unwilling to change
“The guy is a dinosaur. He doesn't know Facebook from Myspace.”
Something that is extremely old or from an earlier period
“In other situations, a working capital problem is only one of many symptoms of the fact that a company is a dinosaur.”
Someone or something that is abnormally powerful or large in size
“Up near Elkington Lodge, a dinosaur of a windpump stands on the hillside.”
Out of date, old-fashioned, antiquated
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