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    ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAUR

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a birdplay

    Synonyms:

    ornithischian; ornithischian dinosaur

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    Nouns denoting animals

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

    dinosaur (any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era)

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

    pisanosaur; pisanosaurus (primitive dinosaur found in Argentina)

    staurikosaur; staurikosaurus (primitive dinosaur found in Brazil)

    armored dinosaur (dinosaurs having bony armour)

    bone-headed dinosaur (bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns)

    ceratopsian; horned dinosaur (any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia)

    ornithopod; ornithopod dinosaur (bipedal herbivorous dinosaur)

    duck-billed dinosaur; hadrosaur; hadrosaurus (any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic)

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

    order Ornithischia; Ornithischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods))

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