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Saurus is defined as the scientific word for lizard. An example of a saurus is a brontosaurus. Saurus is defined as the scientific word for lizard. An example of saurus used as a suffix is in the word brontasaurus which is a type of dinosaur that looks like a big lizard. -saurus Zool. lizard: used to form the scientific names of certain genera of reptiles: Brontosaurus
Middle Dutch sak, Old High German sac, Old Norse sekkr, but Gothic sakkus probably is directly from Greek), an early borrowing from Latin saccus (also source of Old French sac, Spanish saco, Italian sacco), from Greek sakkos, from Semitic (cf. Hebrew saq sack).