'saur

saur -saur Saur English Alternative forms en saur Etymology en dinosaur. Noun en informal _ or _ scifi fantasy A dinosaur. en w:Ken MacLeod Engine City New York, N.Y. w:Tor Books 2003 79 https://archive.org/details/enginecity0000macl/page/79/mode/1up 0-765-30502-X —genetically uplifted the ancestors of the saurs, and culturally—at least—uplifted the kraken. We are used to thinking of these species as wise and ancient, which indeed they are, but the octopods are their 'Elder Race.' en S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling w:The Sky People New York, N.Y. w:Tor Books 2006 75 https://archive.org/details/skypeople0000stir/page/75/mode/1up 0-765-31488-6 The city-folk had learned not to run screaming at the sight of a 'saur with a human being on it, but they were still in sufficient awe that trouble was unlikely. en JV Chamary Paleosaurs: A Solution To The Dinosaur Dilemma? w:Forbes https://web.archive.org/web/20220526062411/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2014/09/30/paleosaurs/ New York, N.Y. w:Forbes Media 30 September 2014 0015-6914 1060960828 Are there other good candidates for a collective term? Mesosaur might work. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other saurs all lived during the Mesozoic Era – the age of reptiles – 252 to 66 million years ago. on en w:Brian Falkner Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo New York, N.Y. w:Farrar Straus Giroux 2015 67 https://archive.org/details/battlesaurusramp0000falk_j5c1/page/67/mode/1up 0-374-30075-5 The bird comes cartwheeling out of the forest in a flurry of feathers and leathery wings. Only as it lands, crashing into the reeds at the edge of the river, does Willem realize that it is not a bird, but a winged saur. en Allison Bagg These Pranksters Dressed As Dinosaurs Scared The Sh*t Out Of Chris Pratt w:BuzzFeed https://web.archive.org/web/20230628033411/https://www.buzzfeed.com/abagg/these-pranksters-dressed-as-dinosaurs-scared-the-sht-out-of 16 June 2015 Who better to prank with dinosaurs than the king of 'saurs himself? Hannah Sparks 3-year-old sings heartbreaking song about 'Dinosaurs in Love' https://web.archive.org/web/20200130153436/https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/3-year-old-sings-heartbreaking-song-about-dinosaurs-in-love/ 29 January 2020 And her most recent tune, "Dinosaurs in Love," is about a pair of smitten 'saurs who find themselves dining at a party just before the apocalyptic event that wiped-out their race. Anagrams en arsu asur Sura USRA USAR sura Ruas URAs