[ noun ] huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic <noun.animal>
Brontosaurus \Bron`to*sau"rus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. bronth` thunder + say^ros lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of large sauropod American dinosaurs of the jurassic era, or an individual of that genus. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles. The genus is also called {Apatosaurus}, and individuals of the genus are also called {brontosaurs}. [1913 Webster +PJC] ||
brontosaur \bron`to*saur"\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. bronth` thunder + say^ros lizard.] (Paleon.) a dinosaur of the genus {Brontosaurus}; an individual may also be called a {brontosaurus} or an {apatosaurus}. [PJC] ||
The museum has revised its opinion of what the head of an apatosaurus _ commonly known as a brontosaurus _ looked like.