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dinosaur (n.)
1841, coined in Modern Latin by Sir Richard Owen, from comb. form of Greek
deinos
"terrible" (see
dire
) +
sauros
"lizard" (see
-saurus
). Figurative sense of "person or institution not adapting to change" is from 1952.
