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- noun Any member of the genus Hadrosaurus or family
Hadrosauridae , an extinct family of heavy bipedal partly aquatic dinosaurs with duck-billed skull and webbed feet; of the Upper Cretaceous in North America.
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- noun paleontology Any
ornithopod dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.
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- noun any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic
Etymologies
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Examples
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MANNING: A hadrosaur is a distinct group of ormafiskin (ph), bird-hip dinosaurs that were quite common at the end of the cretaceous, which was literally the last gasp of the age of dinosaurs.
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(Dalla Vecchia 2009) (throughout this article, I'll be using 'hadrosaur' as a vernacular term for both Hadrosauridae, and for Hadrosauroidea),
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March 11th, 2010 at 1: 56 pm tombaker says: mary and joseph rode in to bethlehem in December of 1878 on a hadrosaur. the rest is history.
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I didn't need to see Rick Marshall pour hadrosaur urine all over himself.
Takashi model frankwu 2009
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In recent years, a team of Mexican and American researchers has been working at a site 13 kilometers (8 miles) from the Rio Grande, where numerous hadrosaur leg bones were found protruding from the ground in 1999.
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Or that the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton—a hadrosaur—was found in 1858 in New Jersey?
HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010
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Like running into a hadrosaur on your way to the bathroom at
HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010
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In recent years, a team of Mexican and American researchers has been working at a site 13 kilometers (8 miles) from the Rio Grande, where numerous hadrosaur leg bones were found protruding from the ground in 1999.
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This is supported by a find of 34 hadrosaur bones together — “these are not literally an articulated skeleton, but the bones are doubtless from a single animal” — if the bones had been exhumed by a river, they would have been scattered.
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And I wonder if it'd be possible to use the same method to try and engineer something close to a triceratops, or even a hadrosaur...what would even be the base for that?
Poultrysaurus James Gurney 2009
fbharjo commented on the word hadrosaur
How many thick-lizards are there?
March 17, 2012