What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary?
A thesaurus.
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Linguistic Brilliance
Did You Know?
"Thesaurus" sounds like a dinosaur name (think Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus), but it's actually the reference book for finding synonyms! The word "thesaurus" comes from Greek meaning "treasure" or "storehouse," and the first modern thesaurus was compiled by Peter Mark Roget in 1852. Meanwhile, the largest known dinosaur vocabulary belongs to paleontologists, who've named over 1,000 species since the term "dinosaur" was coined in 1842.