/kam"euhr euh sawr'/ , n.
a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the genus Camarasaurus and closely related genera, having a small head, long neck, and short forelimbs, and reaching a length of 40 ft. (12.2 m); until 1981 the type specimen of Brontosaurus excelcus was wrongly reconstructed with a Camarasaurus skull.
[ Camarasaurus (1877), irreg. kamára space enclosed by an arch, vault (cf. CHAMBER) + -saurus -SAUR ]