-o-saurus

suffix

Forms names for real or imaginary dinosaurs; see -saurus.

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suffix-o-saurus (plural -o-sauruses)

plural -o-sauruses · alternative -a-saurus

  1. humorousForms names for real or imaginary dinosaurs; see -saurus.

    Finally, I got on a Subwaysaurus and took a seat [...] Then I looked for my ticket, a piece of ear that the ticket-o-saurus had nibbled on when I came in, to prove that I had paid.

    2020, Elisabetta Dami, Geronimo Stilton Cave Mice: The Great Mouse Race, page 30
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    “Nice job, superfreak,” Garwin Chang—a boy wearing a T-shirt that said BACK OFF! I’M GONNA FART—sneered as he shoved past her to join their classmates. “Maybe they'll write another article about you. ‘Child Prodigy Teaches Class About the -o-saurus.”

    2021, Shannon Messenger, chapter 1, in Keeper of Lost Cities, page 7
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APA

-o-saurus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-o-saurus

MLA

“-o-saurus.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-o-saurus. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-o-saurus,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-o-saurus.

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