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Often, the really long dinosaur names are made up of smaller words from languages like Mandarin, Greek and Latin. Once you’ve mastered these parts of dinosaur names you’ll be able to recognise them and pronounce the longer names more easily.
They also act as clues to tell you what sort of dinosaurs they were:
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Tyrannus • • •
(as in TYRANNOSAURUS – ty-RA-no-SAWR-us) means ‘tyrant’ (a sort of mean king or queen)
• • • Titan
(as in GIRAFFATITAN – gi-RAFF-o-TY-tan) means titanic or HUGE
• • • Raptor
(as in APATORAPTOR –ah-PAT-o-RAP-tor) means ‘thief’ or ‘robber’
• • • physis
(as in COELOPHYSIS – SEE-lo-FI-sis) means ‘form’
• • • ornis
(as in SERIKORNIS – sery-CORN-is) means ‘bird’ – and is often used to mean ‘like a bird’
(as in ANSERIMIMUS – AN-sur-i-MY-mus) means ‘mimic’ or ‘like’
• • • DON
(as in HYPSILOPHODON – HIP-si-LOF-o-DON) means ‘tooth’
EO • • •
(as in EOTYRANNUS – E-O-ty-RANUS) means ‘dawn’ and is used
for the earliest dinosaurs
• • • Long
(as in SHAOCHILONG – Sh-OW-chi-LONG) means ‘dragon’
• • • mimus
• • • ceratops
(as in BAGACERATOPS – BAG-a-SERA-tops) means, literally, ‘horn-face’!
• • • onyx
(as in DRACONYX – dra-CON-iks ) means ‘claw’
• • • suchus
(as in INDOSUCHUS – IN-do-SU-kas) means ‘crocodile’ and is often used to mean ‘like a crocodile’
• • • Saurus
(as in STEGOSAURUS – STEG-o-SAWR-us) means ‘lizard’ (even though dinosaurs aren’t lizards!)