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Spell Bee Word: Dinosaur


What does dinosaur mean?

Word: Dinosaur

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Dinosaur means a kind of reptile that lived on Earth millions of years ago; some were huge, and the big ones died out long before people existed.

How do you spell dinosaur?

Syllables: di - no - saur

Tricky part: The ending saur has a u after the a, even though it sounds like sore.

Watch out for: dinosour, dinosor, dinosuar

Memory tip: Saur starts like sauce, s-a-u. Picture a dinosaur dipping its claw in a bowl of tomato sauce.

Dinosaur in a sentence

Example 1: We saw a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum in London.

Example 2: My little sister roars like a dinosaur when she is cross.

Example 3: Some dinosaur eggs have been found in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

Fun Fact

The British scientist Richard Owen made up the name in 1842 from Greek words meaning terrible lizard.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) fossle
b) skeletan
c) dinosaur
d) extinkt

Show answer

c) dinosaur. Fossil, skeleton and extinct are museum words too, but each one here has a wrong letter near the end.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letters to form a word:

d_n_saur

a) y, a
b) i, a
c) e, o
d) i, o

Show answer

d) i, o. Read it as di-no-saur: an i after the d and an o after the n.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

surdoina

a) radius
b) sardine
c) dinner
d) dinosaur

Show answer

d) dinosaur. Sardine and dinner both need an e, and radius is far too short for eight letters.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

dinnosaur

a) o
b) n
c) u
d) s

Show answer

b) n. Dinner has two n's, but this word keeps just one.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Name the dinosaur in this list.

a) woolly mammoth
b) sabre-tooth tiger
c) Stegosaurus
d) giant ground sloth

Show answer

c) Stegosaurus

2. Which animals alive today are descended from dinosaurs?

a) frogs
b) snakes
c) lizards
d) birds

Show answer

d) birds

Associated Words

More Class 4 Summer Spell Bee words starting with di: discipline, disappoint, dislodge, disclose, disorder, distribute

More words from this list

firewall, inhale, mistrust, priest, shield, tuna, agriculture, chamber

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