The word dinosaur comes from the Ancient Greek words which mean a terrible lizard.

The word dinosaur came by combining the Greek words deinos and sauros which means terrible lizard.

The word dinosaur came by combining the Greek words deinos and sauros which means terrible lizard.The word dinosaur literally means terrible, powerful, wondrous lizard. In 1842, Sir Richard Owen, Britain’s leading paleontologist, first coined the term dinosaur. The word is derived from two Greek words (deinos) terrible, powerful, wondrous + (sauros) lizard.

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