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    PSITTACOSAUR

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedalplay

    Synonyms:

    psittacosaur; psittacosaurus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("psittacosaur" is a kind of...):

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

    Holonyms ("psittacosaur" is a member of...):

    genus Psittacosaurus (most primitive genus of horned dinosaurs; early Cretaceous)

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