Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various theropod dinosaurs of the group Ceratosauria of the Triassic and Jurassic Periods, often with a crest or horn on the head, and including coelophysis and dilophosaurus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) the
ceratosaurus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of many
dinosaurs of the infraorderCeratosauria
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- noun primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So, I'm still processing the news of the discovery of hard evidence of an enormous lake that existed in the Martian Shalbatana Vallis region some 3.4 billion years ago, when I get word of an exciting new herbivorous Chinese ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis.
"This flood will swallow all you've left behind." greygirlbeast 2009
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My previous repost was made to give the background on a recent discovery of Jurassic ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, and what it tells us about digit evolution.
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My previous repost was made to give the background on a recent discovery of Jurassic ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, and what it tells us about digit evolution.
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Limusaurus is the first ceratosaur known from East Asia and one of the most primitive members of the group.
innovations-report 2009
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This is a Jurassic ceratosaur, so it says that this is from the Jurassic (~2348 BC).
bilby commented on the word ceratosaur
One for you, chained_bear.
February 6, 2009