DIP-LOD-e-CUSS
although it is commonly mistaken as DIP-LA-DOKE-US.
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It's used as an abbreviation for Diplodocus, a species of dinosaur. Actually, in bacteria, it means "double"
The diplodocus lived in western North American at the end of the Jurassic period. This creature was a larger creature with a long tail that could be used as a whip.
Yes, it is a name of a dinosaur.
The genus name is Latin but the English plural would be "diplodocuses."
It's derived from the Greek words for "double beamed" because of the "double-beamed" formation of some of the bones in its tail.