| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| diplodocus |
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| SYLLABICATION: | di·plod·o·cus |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -pl d  -ks, d - |
| NOUN: | A very large herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Diplodocus that existed during the Jurassic Period. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin Diplodocus, genus name : Greek diplo-, diplo- + Greek dokos, beam; see dek- in Appendix I.
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