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Webster 1913 Edition

Camarasaurus

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Camˊa-ra-sau′rus

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Noun.

[NL. fr. Gr. [GREEK] a vaulted chamber + [GREEK] lizard.]

(Paleon.)

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.