Definition of "dinosaurian" []

• Of, relating to, or characteristic of a dinosaur. (adjective)
• A dinosaur. (noun)

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• "He doesn’t doubt the underlying hypothesis – that is, the dinosaurian origin of Aves, often abbreviated as BADD, Birds Are Dinosaur Descendants – at all."
• "Their bill virtually wiped out funding for commercial contracts -- money that they want to waste on the old Constellation system, a discredited and dinosaurian space project based on the failed approaches of the past."
• "No clear solution presents itself at the present, only that the survival and radiation pattern could not have followed from the traditional view that it was all a simple matter of some innate dinosaurian "superiority" and competition."