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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

-o-saurus en · X

Meanings

  1. (humorous, morpheme) Forms names for real or imaginary dinosaurs; see -saurus.
    • “Nice job, superfreak,” Garwin Chang—a boy wearing a T-shirt that said BACK OFF! I’M GONNA FART—sneered as he shoved past her to join their classmates. “Maybe they'll write another article about you. ‘Child Prodigy Teaches Class About the -o-saurus.” 2021, Shannon Messenger, chapter 1, in Keeper of Lost Cities, page 7:
    • Finally, I got on a Subwaysaurus and took a seat [...] Then I looked for my ticket, a piece of ear that the ticket-o-saurus had nibbled on when I came in, to prove that I had paid. 2020, Elisabetta Dami, Geronimo Stilton Cave Mice: The Great Mouse Race, page 30:

Forms

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-a-saurus alternative lexicographic
-o-sauruses Number=Plur lexicographic