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What does the word 'dinosaur' mean?
The word 'dinosaur' means 'terrible lizard', and comes from the Greek words dino (meaning 'terrible') and saur (meaning 'lizard'). When scientists first discovered dinosaur fossils, they imagined them to be the remains of huge lizards from the past.
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