dinophilia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Robert Bakker, I believe. The main theory is presented in "The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs", which isn't actually by Bakker. Can't remember tha author offhand, but can find out if anyone's interested. This book was reprinted recently in the light of dinophilia, and is worth a read if you're interested in the field."
- "Most people get the dino bug as kids. And get over it. But Larry League was a teacher in his forties when he was struck down with dinophilia: Dinosaurs were not the "in" thing when I was a child... I've collected rocks, minerals and fossils all my life, but there were few dinosaur remains in Kansas where I lived."
- "People assume that with all this dinophilia, and with all the money spent on dinosaur paraphernalia, paleontology must be rolling in dough."