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bronto

bronto is the clipping of brontosaurus.

Meaning of brontosaurus

Noun

brontosaurus (plural brontosauruses or brontosauri)

  1. Any member of the genus †Brontosaurus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs with whip-like tails, which lived in present-day United States during the Late Jurassic period.
    • Near-synonym: thunder lizard (can denote a brontosaurus or an apatosaurus)

Forms of bronto

pluralbrontos

Questions about bronto

What is bronto the clipping of?
Bronto is the clipping of brontosaurus.

Words near bronto in the dictionary

  1. brontephobia
  2. brontesis
  3. Brontesque
  4. brontide
  5. brontides
  6. bronto
  7. bronto-
  8. brontobyte
  9. brontobytes
  10. brontograph
  11. brontographs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bronto (page history and authors); brontosaurus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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