Definitions
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- noun large duck-billed dinosaur of the Cretaceous period
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Examples
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Triceratops with its ruffed collar, tyrannosaurus of the fearful teeth, ankylosaurus the plated ambulating tank, trachodon the gentle duck-billed monster-all had vanished.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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Prof. Challenger (Wallace Beery) and Prof. Summerlee (Arthur Hoyt) behold the death struggle between allosaursus and trachodon.
The Lost World 1912
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We may take it for granted that the pterodactyl and the trachodon had none of the foreboding based on experience which destroys the peace of man.
The Conquest of Fear Basil King 1893
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