dinosaur : Idioms & Phrases

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armored dinosaur

  • noun dinosaurs having bony armour
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bird-footed dinosaur

  • noun any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs
    bird-footed dinosaur; theropod.
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bone-headed dinosaur

  • noun bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns
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duck-billed dinosaur

  • noun any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic
    hadrosaurus; hadrosaur.
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green dinosaur

  • noun a living fossil or so-called `green dinosaur'; genus or subfamily of primitive nut-bearing trees thought to have died out 50 million years ago; a single specimen found in 1994 on Mount Bartle Frere in eastern Australia; not yet officially named
    Bartle Frere; genus Bartle-Frere.
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horned dinosaur

  • noun any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia
    ceratopsian.
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ornithischian dinosaur

  • noun herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird
    ornithischian.
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ornithopod dinosaur

  • noun bipedal herbivorous dinosaur
    ornithopod.
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saurischian dinosaur

  • noun herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile
    saurischian.
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sauropod dinosaur

  • noun very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal
    sauropod.
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theropod dinosaur

  • noun any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs
    bird-footed dinosaur; theropod.
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