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1 definition found
From Lojban to English :

        Word: dinso [jbovlaste]
        Type: experimental gismu (YOU RISK BEING MISUNDERSTOOD IF YOU USE THIS WORD)
  Gloss Word: ancient quasi-reptilian vertebrate
  Gloss Word: dinosaur in the sense of "completely general"
  Definition: x1 is a 'dinosaur' [very general: any ancient quasi-reptilian
       vertebrate or, possibly but probably not, modern bird] of type
       x2 living in era x3.
       Notes: A gismu version of "dinsauru"; contrast with "rexsa" (in
       particular, this word probably would not but could refer to
       modern birds whereas "rexsa" can always do so without any
       connotation to the contrary; meanwhile, "rexsa" cannot refer
       to pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, vel sim. but this word can). The
       use of this word is not strictly only relevant to members of
       clade Dinosauria, although it does include them (and,
       specifically, modern birds, although it connotes ancientness
       and extinction unless it is part of an explicitly contrary or
       general context); its referent might also/alternatively include
       pterosaurs, icthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, dimetrodons,
       avemetatarsaliads, and perhaps even other ancient synapsids (in
       other words, any prehistoric quasi-reptilian vertebrate). As
       such, it is a qualitative word that bears no particular or
       strong attention or respect to genealogy, cladistics,
       taxology/taxonomy, or scientific/academic classification of
       these animals. Basically, any prehistoric animal the name of
       which ends in "-saur" can be so-described, as well as others.
       It probably should not reference more modern-like mammals
       proper. Proposed short rafsi: -dis-. See also: "rexsa",
       "ketslau", "ikfiio", "disrmuzo", "plesiio".

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