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diplodocus (n.)
1884, coined in Modern Latin in 1878 by U.S. paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) from Greek
diploos
"double" (see
diploid
) +
dokos
"a beam." So called for the peculiar structure of the tail bones.
