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ARMORED DINOSAUR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Dinosaurs having bony armour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("armored dinosaur" is a kind of...):

ornithischian; ornithischian dinosaur (herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armored dinosaur"):

stegosaur; Stegosaur stenops; stegosaurus (herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon)

ankylosaur; ankylosaurus (having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's)

Holonyms ("armored dinosaur" is a member of...):

suborder Thyreophora; Thyreophora; thyreophoran (armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs)

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