8 апр. 2020 г. · Dinosaur is from the Greek Deinos meaning Terrible and Sauros meaning Lizard. So a dinosaur is a terrible lizard.

17 сент. 2019 г. · Oh. Maybe. I don't speak Latin. Edit: but I have heard it said tyrannosaurus means terrible lizard.

12 янв. 2015 г. · But the word "dinosaur" itself is Greek for "terrible lizard" (deinos = terrible, sauros = lizard).

22 дек. 2016 г. · And did you know that the term Dinosaur didn't come around until early 1840s'? From which all terrible lizards around the world were just ...

5 июн. 2022 г. · The species name functions basically like an adjective modifying the generic name. So technically it's "king tyrant lizard", like "emperor penguin".

16 июл. 2013 г. · Is Tyrannosaurus Rex the "king of the terrible lizards" or the "terrible lizard king"?

17 авг. 2022 г. · Tyrannosaurus means "tyrant lizard". The specific epithet rex comes from the Latin for royalty. So Tyrannosaurus rex is the tyrant lizard king.

27 авг. 2016 г. · Zilla should be renamed to Jirasaurus. "Jira" still being Zilla, and "Saurus" simply meaning terrible lizard, as it's not a title exclusive to dinosaurs.

10 сент. 2024 г. · Saurus is Latin for lizard. when they named the dinosaurs as terrible lizards, that is where it came from. People mistook the first dinosaurs we ...

17 июн. 2022 г. · The saurus in that word (also the saur in "dinosaur") comes from the Greek word for lizard, σαῦρος, or more commonly σαύρα. In Latin, it was ...