Is a THESAURUS an extinct BEAR?

Question

That's what my mom told me?

Answer 1

yes it is

Answer 2

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by BEAR? I mean, I know what a bear means but since you capitolized it, it might mean something else. All I know is that I am 24 and I use the Thesaurus my grandfather gave me religiously and it's not even up to date. Maybe your mom doesn't have a use for it which is fine but as a writer, I find myself repeating certain words when I know there is another way to express what I am saying. I still think this goes back to the whole BEAR thing. Elaborate in details and I will modify my answer.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph. After I read everyone else's answers I realized I assumed you knew what a thesaurus meant and that it was some kind of riddle. I am really sorry if I was wrong because I just think ... WAY outside the box. No, a thesaurus is a really great book. Yes, it does sound like a dinosaur but how old are you if you can use a computer? If indead before asking this question you were not sure if this name for a "book" was actually a name for an "extinct bear" I would confront your mom, not too angrily, but forcibly and tell her that you know she was messing with you and that by giving you wrong information about life is really going to mess you up in the future. And that if she really cared about you she would tell you the truth because, obviously, you have resources to find out the real answer.

I have no idea what the answer is. You could be 25 and just having a laugh or you could be 12 and not know what the hell you are talking about because your mother is not teaching you right. I am not talking bad against her but every grown woman should know what a thesaurus is and not tell their child any differently.

Answer 3

Saurus is the biological word for snake, and dinosaur was one of the larger types of snakes. However, in this case, your mom was teasing you. Thesaurus is a book much like a dictionary in which you look up information about words. You can find words with similar meanings in a thesaurus, or learn about the history of words or their usages.

An extinct bear would be some type of 'ursus' because that is the biological word for bear.

Answer 4

She is jokeing with you. It sounds like a dinosaur, but it really is a book that list other words that can be used in place of a given word.
The word thesaurus is derived from 16th century New Latin, in turn from Latin thesaurus, from ancient Greek thesauros, "store-house", "treasury". Besides its meaning as a treasury or storehouse, it more commonly means a listing of words with similar, related, or opposite meanings (this new meaning of thesaurus dates back to Roget's Thesaurus). For example, a book of jargon for a specialized field; or more technically a list of subject headings and cross-references used in the filing and retrieval of documents (or indeed papers, certificates, letters, cards, records, texts, files, articles, essays and perhaps even manuscripts), film, sound recordings, machine-readable media, etc.

Answer 5

I think your mom might be messing with you.

She is probably trying to tell you to use one for your homework.

In the old days we used them all the time...kids these days dont even know what one is- which is obvious by the fact that you even had to ask the question.

Its a book where you can look up a word and find several other words that mean pretty much the same thing.

Answer 6

Thesaurus is a deprecated genus of sauropod dinosaurs. The Thesaurus was misidentified by its discoverer Othniel Charles Marsh, in 1879 and the designation persisted as the official term in the literature until at least 1974.

The terms Thesaurus, Thontosaurs and Throntosaurians (no capital 'B'; no italics) are often used to refer to an infraorder of sauropods including genera such as Brachiosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus and Supersaurus, as well as Apatosaurus.


History
Othniel Marsh, a Professor of Paleontology at Yale University who described and named an incomplete (and juvenile) skeleton of Apatosaurus ajax in 1877, two years later announced the discovery of a far larger and more complete specimen at Como Bluff Wyoming — which, because of discrepancies including the size difference, Marsh incorrectly identified as belonging to an entirely new genus and dubbed Thesaurus excelsus.


Thesaurus skeleton by Othniel C. MarshTo perfect his find — the largest dinosaur ever discovered at the time and nearly complete, lacking only a head, feet, and portions of the tail — for what was to be the first ever display of a sauropod skeleton, at Yale's Peabody Museum in 1905, scientists there [Marsh could not have done this as he had died in 1899!] added some feet he had discovered at the same quarry, a tail fabricated to appear as he believed it should and what he apparently felt was the "correct" skull for the massive creature. This was not a delicate Diplodocus-style skull, matching what was actually a large Apatosaurus skeleton but, instead, a chimaera composed of "the biggest, thickest, strongest skull bones, lower jaws and tooth crowns from three different quarries", primarily those of Camarasaurus. (This "scientific sloppiness" is considered to be symptomatic of undue haste resulting from Marsh's notorious rivalry with Edward Drinker Cope, which would later become known as the "Bone Wars".)

In 1903 Elmer Riggs published a paper in Geological Series of the Field Columbian Museum which identified B. excelsus as an Apatosaur (ie. A. excelsus):

...In view of these facts the two genera may be regarded as synonymous. As the term "Apatosaurus" has priority, "Thesaurus" will be regarded as a synonym.
Nevertheless, the mistake was perpetuated by conservative paleontologists and museum curators (who would in fact reverse a number of corrective identifications of Apatosaurus skulls over the years) until it was officially laid to rest in 1975 with the publication of a paper by John S. (“Jack”) McIntosh and David S. Bermanbase, based on twenty years of research review.

Despite this some paleontologists — most notably Robert Bakker — argue that A. ajax and A. excelsus are in fact sufficiently distinct that the latter continues to merit a separate genus. Bakker recently re-classified A. yahnahpin as the type-species for the new genus EoThesaurus.

Differences from Apatosaurus:
Apart from its fabricated skull, it is notable that the ponderous Brontosaur's traditional, semi-aquatic lifestyle is no longer believed to have resembled that of the real-world Apatosaurs. No Apatosaurus skeleton has been found in an ancient body of water, nor were its feet suited to walking through marshy and muddy ground. In fact, recent evidence [1] suggests that most sauropods actively avoided swampy terrain. Additionally, the gracile-skulled Apatosaurs, lacking the peg-like teeth of the bronto, almost certainly used a gizzard to enrich their diets sufficiently to allow them to move rapidly in herds, use their flexible tails in battle and perhaps even to rear up on their hind legs to reach vegetation or to mate.

Answer 7

Why ask? Do you doubt your own mother? You shoould be ashamed of yourself

Seriously, a thesaurus is book that has a word's synonyms and antonyms

Answer 8

She lied. A bear is an Ursasuraus

Answer 9

no, a thesaurus is a large, extinct reference book...

Answer 10

No, it's like a dictionary. gives you common words to use in place of similar words.

Answer 11

it is a book of words that mean the same things
usually there is one in the back of the dictionary